May Random Thread, Part 1
Date: May 1, 2012
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 1st, 2012 @ 01:11I am nearly done with one of my papers, and shouldn’t be here at all, but I’m so close now taking a break
can’t shouldn’thurt. Even though tonight has turned into a later night than I like. I am so, so weak when it comes to sleep…
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Maths Lover ♥
in May 1st, 2012 @ 03:10It’s a while since I’ve seen a thread with one post.
I don’t have anything too interesting to report… my plans for this week involve homework, starting some differential calculus (in my quest to be confused about various things because they’re complicated instead of because I don’t understand the notation) , continuing my reading of Fellowship of the Ring, keeping in contact with people I don’t see offline, reading Luminosity then dragging myself away an hour of so later…
We went to some small towns in the Blue Mountains area a week ago, that was fun. Interesting that ever since mid last year, something interesting enough to talk about at school has happened in the holidays, while before that my plans were stay at home and go to the mall.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 1st, 2012 @ 08:35The picture appears to be broken…either that or my computer’s acting up.
Not much to report on this side of the screen. I still feel really sick, and my mother said I could stay home from school.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 1st, 2012 @ 09:43I hope you feel much better very soon!
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Dodecahedron
in May 1st, 2012 @ 11:50Hello!
My last day of classes is tomorrow which is very stressful, but I think I’m mostly on top of the workload. Either that or I’ve just had too much coffee this morning (and yes, 12:45 is morning when your classes don’t start until 2). Am I supposed to be shaking like this? Doesn’t matter, I can still type fine.GAPAs/other technologically inclined people possibly —
I’m thinking of buying myself some web hosting and a domain name. (Right now I’m using Amazon Web Services for a couple small things like Web Programming homework and some Java programs I wanted Google to be able to access, but that’s only free for a year, it has lots of features I’m not using, and it has a long and complex URL anyway. Not ruling it out, just considering other options.)
What do you use for web hosting? I mean, MuseBlog has to be running on a server somewhere, even if you only interact with the backend through WordPress…
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 1st, 2012 @ 12:22Dodecahedron:
Our host company is called Dreamhost. Larry Gonick recommended it to me many years ago, and I’ve found it to be reliable on the whole.
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Dodecahedron
in May 1st, 2012 @ 12:55Thanks!
Dreamhost was one of the companies listed in class yesterday — I believe one of the slides referred to it as “awesome” but I also believe that slide was a couple years old. I’m glad it’s working out well for you, and I’ll look into it for my own use.
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Vendaval
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 22:24I use midphase/ANhosting, just because it’s cheap and reliable and I don’t need much. I’ve used Dreamhost before and it’s no different- you won’t go wrong.
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Agent Lightning
in May 1st, 2012 @ 16:42Chamelon Circuit is on Pandora! It used to not be on there.
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Mikazuki
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 19:38I must check this out.
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 1st, 2012 @ 18:04Ugh it’s too hot to move and I feel gooky, I’m hoping it’s allergies from sleeping outside last night and not sickness.
Also, philosophy papers. I am listening to bluegrass and pretending like that’ll motivate me.
Have any of you heard of Punch Brothers? They’re a progressive bluegrass band and they are AMAZING. I’m kind of in love with them. You should look them up.Oh, oh, last night I got to try out using a German Wheel! (I mentioned this on a different thread, too.)
It was awesome. I was too short to go completely around standing up (the wheel is too big for me–I couldn’t reach the handles enough to grip securely), but I got to go completely around in the “atlas” position (basically crouching in the wheel and hanging on for dear life). It was SUPER COOL and only a bit terrifying.
They’re hoping to be able to offer classes in using the German Wheel next year, which would be exciting. Also next semester I’m thinking about seeing about starting on aerial silks. Because at circus it was amazing and I want to do it.
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Jadestone
in May 1st, 2012 @ 19:25Hey! My roommate and ex-roommate learned silks and other circus tricks over winter term at a circus school, SENCA, in Seattle. They said it was really fun. I wish I could do that stuff! I’ll just have to stick with poi for now.
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POSOC
in May 1st, 2012 @ 23:59Ye gods, I hate that kind of weather. I hope the bluegrass helps a little.
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Julia/Fortune Cell
in May 1st, 2012 @ 18:50You know what are awesome? Kokonventions.
Which is why I’m spring cleaning today. Because, come Thursday, a Mr. Vendaval is coming to stay for six days with me (and my boyfriend) over here in Toronto! Many magical adventures are planned, hijinks will ensue, yada yada yada. Awesome.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 1st, 2012 @ 19:09I clicked on this thread and now I feel the need to jump around yelling “I GOT FIRST!”, despite knowing that it’s horrible behavior. Maturity? What?
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oxlin
in May 1st, 2012 @ 22:08Heh. I remember back when there were three random threads a month I tried very hard to get first on all three once and did manage! Forget which month that was, though.
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KaiYves
in May 1st, 2012 @ 19:37I found an Iron Man RPer on an external blogging site and messaged him asking if he’d talked to Elon Musk recently.
His reply was: “Eugh, no, thank god. Dude’s a bore. Why?”
IS NOT!
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Cat's Meow
in May 1st, 2012 @ 23:02My dad used to work with Elon Musk.
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Cat's Meow
in May 1st, 2012 @ 23:19Well, Much Ado opens tomorrow. Rehearsal went well, though not well enough for us to fear that it jinxed the performances. Today was the first time we ran it all the way through, and the director left at 5 right when we were actually starting. (He has not stayed past 6 a single night because he decided after auditions that he was going to audition for another local play that has its rehearsals every night.) Don Pedro (a major character) kind of doesn’t know her lines 100% yet. Our Beatrice (the female lead) is losing her voice. She’s going to miss school tomorrow to drink tea and honey. I, personally, am doing well – all of my costumes are together, and, as Dogberry, if I have minor slips for any lines, I can easily pass it off as excessive drunkenness.
Last night and this morning I was rather stressed. I coach a girls’ U-7 soccer team with some friends (including the play’s Benedick, who by the way is a girl) because two of the parents were trying to lead a coup and take over the team. That occupied a large part of my mind from the end of rehearsal until the end of school today. It seems now that everything is going to work out okay, but it was scary for a while there. My friend and I feel like we fully employed the rhetorical skills we’ve learned in AP English (pathos, logos, ethos, addressing multiple audiences, etc.) in our reply to the parents – school is paying off!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 07:27Good luck, Dogberry! Let us know how it goes.
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Capricious
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 08:42No matter what I do, I fall asleep in every class. I’m also failing Fiction Poetry Workshop. Yes, I am that student.
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oxlin
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 14:00OMG I MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON SPEAK NEXT WEEK!!!
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Castle
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 16:10CAREFUL GUYSWE’RE DEALING WITH A BADASS HERE
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 19:30DAT AVATAR
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*Cskia
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 20:01AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH^is that considered a relevant post?
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Kai D
in May 13th, 2012 @ 16:28Did you just cuss!? You know, the bee-ay-dee-ay-ess-ess-word?
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small but fierce
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:06You mean badass? I think he did.
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:25Kai D: This is a moderated forum, so you won’t find as much bad language here as most parts of the Internet. However, mild swearing is allowed, possibly because it’s so common that it’s impractical for it not to be. I’m sorry if it bothers you; the GAPAs and some of us MuseBloggers may not like it, but it still happens, and it’s rather difficult to avoid seeing it.
Sbf: That’s a bit uncalled for. He may have reacted rather strongly, but if he doesn’t want to type the word, there isn’t anything wrong with that.
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:42yea i only sweard once. and i made up a new rule for myself: if i swear on museblog then i can’t swear for another 2 months but when the two months are up i can use one swear word then i can’t swear for another 2 months and so on and so forth!
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small but fierce
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:51Sorry about that, I was in the mood for trollery.
(Also, considering he used the word “cake” rather profusely, I feel like it’s a moot point.)
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 19:44but also i watch lots of let’s plays of video games on youtube and they swear a lot though. but i seen them so many times i hardly notice
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Bibliophile
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 16:50TITANIC LEVELS OF ENVY
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KaiYves
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 20:44As opposed to Lusitania levels.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 12:48Or Empress or S.S. Minnow levels.
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Luna the Lovely
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 19:44Any of you guys good w/ statistics? I used to be, 5 years ago, when I wasn’t constantly sleep deprived…..I don’t understand how my epidemiology teacher got the answer for the following question and answer. The test is tomorrow, and my brain hurts, and I don’t have time to sit here puzzling over it, because I have an anatomy final I have to study for as well (which I haven’t done yet, because of all my other finals), and I have to go study it, because there is a very high probability I’m going to fail it, and yeah. I wish it was July, I just want this first year over with. I want sleep.
9. The average (mean) live weights of a farmer’s steers prior to slaughter was 380 pounds in the past years with a standard deviation of 30. This year his 50 steers were fed a new diet. Consider these 50 steers on the new diet as a random sample taken from a population of all possible steers that may be fed the diet now or in the future. Use the sample data given here and α = .01 to test the research hypothesis that the mean live weight for steer on the new diet is greater than 380 lbs. The sample data are n = 50, Xi = 390.
Z test : (Xi-μ)/σ = (390-380)/30= .333 look this up on a Z-table and the area under the curve between 390 and 380 is 0.1293 since we have set the level of significiance to be α=0.01 we would need to have the area under the curve to be greater than 0.49 to be considered significant.
I understand how he calculated the value of 0.333, but I don’t get how he got 0.1293 from his Z-table. Help?
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Luna the Lovely
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 20:27okay, so i think the problem might be sorted. time to study anatomy. i’ve got 5 1/2 hours I can study it before i have to get bed, if i want to get 6 hours of sleep tonight. yay.
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Purple Panda
in May 2nd, 2012 @ 23:36Hey Luna,
Here’s how I understand it. So, your population mean is 380 lbs, and based on the question your null hypothesis is Mu=380 lbs, and your alternate hypothesis is Mu>380 lbs.
σ=30 / μ=380 / xi=390 / n=50 / z=.333
So because σ is 30 and xi (390) is only 10 above the μ of 380, you’re 1/3 of a SD away from the mean, which gives you a z-score of .333. With this, you need to go to your z-table.
I’m not sure what z-table you’re looking at, but there are a number of different ways to interpret the area. For this problem, you’ll want a z-table that shows you the area to the right of a z-score, because you want to know if the mean weight for steer on the new diet is greater than 380 lbs. If you don’t have a table that shows you those values, you can figure it out from pretty much any z-table, but it will take a little bit more calculation (for example, if it shows you the area to the left, you can just subtract that number from 1 to get the area to the right). So you go to your z-table and find .333, and the number should be .1293. On the z-table I’m using, I found 0.3 in the vertical column (y axis) and 0.03 in the horizontal row (x axis), and the number in that cell is .1293, which is your p-value.
// Also, it sounds like you figured it out. But I hope this is helpful anyway. Good luck with your finals!!
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Luna the Lovely
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 18:58Thanks, Pan!
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 00:10Hey guys!
I feel like it’s been ages since I’ve been here, but really I’ve just been so busy. So here’s what’s up:
– Kokoventions are awesome, this next one promises again to be something special! It’s in a foreign country! Eeeeeeeeee!!!! I’m excited.
– I’ve been working at a fine art studio for a while now, and I’ve learned a lot about art and business. Everyone else who works there is very smart and well educated, but they’re not always interested in learning new techniques. Not that I fault them, they’ve spent a lot of time and energy learning highly specific skills; but being open to learning new things whenever the opportunity arises has taught me a lot! Today I learned how to use a very very high resolution camera, last week I learned how to use a raster/vector precision laser cutter. I like knowing that I know things… maybe knowing that I’m more prepared makes me feel more in control of my life. And I just like learning!
– I very recently had a tiny magnet implanted in the inner tip of my left ring finger. It’s a cylinder a few millimeters in size, neodymium, covered in a silicone sheath. The procedure is experimental, but it was performed by an expert and only 5 took minutes! It’s healing now; as the tissue re-normalizes the nerve endings in my fingertip will feel the magnet reacting to magnetic fields. As I’m writing this I can feel the fan in my laptop spinning. It’s an experience!
– I crewed as part of a team on a 40 foot sailboat, with another regatta planned soon. We were match racing, a type of sailboat racing that’s like a duel between two boats. The sailing center that hosted it and supplied the boats will hold a lot more events and programs in the future, I think I might spend a lot of time there.
– I’ve been pretty happy recently, but I also feel like my life is more out of control. I was just doing some strategic planning with a dance company I’m interning for, and I helped them construct a 5 year plan. I have no 5 year plan. :/ I have a 1 year plan, but even that isn’t really set… I’m being pulled in two directions; art or sailing? Neither are especially secure lines of education or employment, but they seem to be what I like to do/what I’m good at, so I guess I should aim for a combination of them. meeeehhhhhhh
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Jadestone
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 00:46MAGNET WHAT? WHAT IS THIS FOR, IT SOUNDS PRETTY NEAT
ARE YOU A SECRET ROBOT NOW OH MAN
And *hugs* for lives feeling out of control! I do not even have plans for the summer with where I will be or what I will be doing so you are certainly not alone in not knowing what you’re doing with your life x_x
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 08:56AFFIRMATIVE AFFIRMATIVE I AM A ROBOT MAN NOW
it’s not really for anything in particular besides augmenting my sense of touch, it can pick up staples and small paperclips but not much else. Eventually I might be able to feel if metal objects are ferrous or not. haha, and there’s probably a bit of rebellion in it too, my parents were like “A tattoo we were prepared for but WHAT IS THIS we’re not even sure if this is unreasonable?”Okay it’s decided, there’s nothing for it but to be squids and wander in space until we figure something out!
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Castle
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 11:27Can I get one too, or are you a very special top secret goverment-robot-Vendaval?
There’s also apparently some pretty good tattoo artists here in Connecticut. I’ve been pushing my parents for it, and they’re not against tattoos per se, but they’re not for them either. I’m hoping to get a small zoso symbol on the inside of my wrist or on my upper arm.
Also, I’ve been wondering where you’d gotten off to. Welcome back in!
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 15:56They’re only made by one guy, who distributes them to people he’s trained. The piercer I went to doesn’t advertise, and isn’t too keen on me recommending him to people for it because it’s so new; anyone who wants to get one just needs to do some research first.
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Castle
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:32I looked it up – apparently there’ve been quite a few problems with the silicone coating around the magnet disintegrating. Fun. It seems the guy that makes them is working on making it better, though, so by the time my parents let me get one it should have a higher success rate.
Magnets in finger? Awesomeness increased x∞.
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:16The 1st gen were neodymium/gold/dipped industrial silicone. I have a 3rd gen design that’s neodymium/injection molded medical silicone. The injection molding ensures a more even coating that wears much slower, and the silicone is more pure/less susceptible to disintegration. This 3rd gen design has a 96% success rate over 5 years; if it continues to behave like other implants it should be good for much longer. I’m expecting to need to remove it at some point in the future, but it’s another 3 minute operation, and I’m okay with that. The real concern design-wise now is trauma to the finger, especially shear force.
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Jadestone
in May 4th, 2012 @ 20:19You will also have to beware of surprise MRIs! But those are probably exceedingly rare XD
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Jadestone
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 11:41Oh my god that is so awesome. Can you make magnets wiggle without touching them? MAGIC. Since this is a new kind of thing are you supposed to keep track of how it feels or anything? You said it was experimental so I’m not quite sure.
AND YES, LET US GO DO THAT
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:03haha, I can, if they’re small and close to my hand.
Although it was designed by a neurologist and a guy who designs surgical equipment, it’s not exactly going to be peer-reviewed. My piercer said he’d be interested if I emailed him some information about the sensation (it should become more refined over the next few months), but otherwise the procedure itself was pretty simple- just a single dissolvable suture. One of the first people to get one did his doctorate in machine-human interaction, so it was a part of his thesis. I don’t know of any ongoing research, if there is any I’d be glad to participate!
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Jadestone
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:47That’s really interesting. Is it strong enough that you shouldn’t be touching hard drives or will it miss with metal detectors and stuff?
Sorry this is just really interesting and I’m so curious! Was there any specific motivation behind it, besides OH MAN THAT IS SO AWESOME!?
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:31It might flip some bits on floppy drives, but hard drives and the like are made of tougher stuff. Metal detectors need to be turned more sensitive than usual to pick it up.
I saw Quinn Norton’s talk years ago, and decided I would get one of my own once they were built to last longer. Transhumanism is what brought me to it originally, and while I’m not really very gung-ho H+/”omg singularity!!!!”, the ideas are very interesting, from the technical aspects of AI and neuroplasticity to the bioethics to the philosophy of identity and the self. And when you get right down to it, who wouldn’t want to be able to feel magnetic fields?! I WANT TO LEARN EVERYTHING. Augmentation of the senses helps me do that.
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Dodecahedron
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:541. this is so awesome, I am envious of you for being one of the first in a new era (or so I presume)
2. Do you know anything else about machine-human interaction in the thesis that the person you mentioned wrote? There’s a human computer interaction group at my college, but as far as I can tell it mostly focuses on making computers more human-friendly via apps for disabled people etc. And I’d really like to know how HCI here is related to tiny magnetic implants, although if it isn’t that’s okay too.
3. This reminds me of the time I designed a BESM character (it’s like Dungeons and Dragons but anime-themed) with a pet robot and the ability to detect magnetic fields in its vicinity and levitate small metal objects… I never got to use the character but I wish I had
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:471. I actually don’t think it’ll really take off anytime soon like tattooing has, because it’s not as simple and gratification is delayed. Hopefully it’ll lead to something even better!
2. I’ll have to get back to you with the papers, they’re not on my local hard drive. In the mean time, check out Sensebridge!
3. Aw, I’ll play with you when we eventually hang out!
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 21:081. An amendment: I could easily see these implants becoming popular among electricians and engineers (especially bomb technicians!).
2. Here are two. There are others I can’t seem to find, but these are good.
Hameed, J., Harrison, I., Gasson, M.N., and Warwick, K. A Novel Human-Machine Interface using Subdermal Magnetic Implants. School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading.
Ma Y. Magnetic Hand Tracking for Human-Computer Interface. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University.
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Dodecahedron
in May 4th, 2012 @ 13:41Thanks!
It is reading/finals week so I am trying desperately not to look up these papers so that I will study instead of thinking about how cool magnets are for several hours
we’ll see how that goes…also I cannot wait for this proposed future day during which we hang out
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:44WARNING WARNING! DANGER DANGER! D.R SMITH IS BEING ATTACKED. DANGER! do any of you guys even watch that show?
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KaiYves
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 13:26Well, I think this would make Vendy a cyborg rather than a robot…
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Julia/Fortune Cell
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 11:55I’m feeling a little smug that kokonvening with me comes first in a list that includes turning into a robot.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 4th, 2012 @ 14:07
So, I understand that your minions are attempting to acquire superpowers.
I suppose you could call it that.
The ability to tell whether a wire is carrying a current won’t save them from the Bunny Apocalypse. But no doubt they’ll find a way to write it into the script.
It’s not just about electricity.
Ah, yes, picking up paperclips without using one’s thumb. I’m sure that will be quite a hit at parties.
Don’t you have anything constructive to say?
You know, if they’re intent on becoming trans-human, I have some colleagues who will be happy to help them.
We’re not interested in bunnification.
Mrf, mrf, mrf.
Sometimes you’re much better company than you are at other times, you know that?
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KaiYves
in May 4th, 2012 @ 16:22Given all the Avengers buzz, would this summer (after finals, of course) be a good time for a new superhero RPG? Maybe without the added Mary Sue element of the old one, and with more of a comic-booky feel?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 4th, 2012 @ 17:46Hm… Or maybe Muses vs. Avengers crossover fanfiction.
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Vendaval
in May 5th, 2012 @ 01:15Hmm, what’s that, part of a plan for world domination, you say? Ha, ha, ha, ha- no, that would be preposterous! It’s a tiny little magnet, almost nothing, really mostly harmless.
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Catwoman
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 00:41OMG! my first post for weeks! i hope you havn’t forgot about me! (as if that’l ever happen(i hope))
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Maths Lover ♥
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 04:54You’re pretty noticeable, what with your exubarance.
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Luna the Lovely
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 18:57Considering that a) your first post ever was barely 2 weeks ago and b) you posted as recently as the 27th, which was only 6 days ago, this is far from your “first post for weeks”.
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Catwoman
in May 5th, 2012 @ 02:23well it FELT like weeks
OMG i missed you guys so much!!! *hugs everyone*
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Bibliophile
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:38Sorry for the misplaced click
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Jadestone
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 00:45Read animorphs all day, watch Batman all night, do no work ever
aka I took a sanity day
Will pay for it later of course but sometimes they are needed
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Maths Lover ♥
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 05:07My physics class is interesting. We had it last period, and my teacher talked about a magazine article saying that our generation have been raised to have unrealistic levels of self-esteem, and the discussion somehow got onto comparing what people take for granted or are happy about in developed and third world countries, then to various time periods’ and cultures’ views on having and raising children, then someone half-jokingly said ‘we should move to another planet’ if the population grows too much, which made me think of my SF-influenced idealistic and not-so-idealistic views of the future… By then the conversation had split up and gone onto more minor topics and we were acting like a normal class who want to avoid studying.
All that put me in an odd mood, so I walked around the border of the school and admired the landscape and took photos.
I’ve watched/will watch Star Trek these last 3 nights. Rather relaxing.
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bookgirl_me
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 08:08Tomorrow is the first day of my written Matura exams *drumroll*
In a way, it’s also the last day of my written Matura exams, since the other two are English (aka a picnic with essay writing) and Math (aka. babysitting for teens with calculators, imho).
Then it’s just prep classes for the spoken exams in June- so technically, today was my last day of high school O.O
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KaiYves
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 08:55You’re lucky essay writing is a picnic for you.
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Catwoman
in May 5th, 2012 @ 02:26hey bookgirl_me! yoo hoo!
my friend Kari is having her B-day party today and she loves My Little Pony stuff… maybe she would like to meet your avatar! ☺ who knows…
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bookgirl_me
in May 5th, 2012 @ 11:00Heh probably
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Catwoman
in May 11th, 2012 @ 20:49oh you changed it… oh well
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Piggy
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 13:50Well. An hour away from my organ audition, and I just got an email saying that I won a Latin translation competition with a pretty healthy cash prize. My blood right now is at least one-third adrenaline. I think I’m gonna go run a marathon real quick.
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Piggy
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:00Well the audition went fine, and the organ professor said he’ll try to set me up with an adviser, so I guess I got in. But I also heard that my grandpa isn’t getting any better and we’re basically at the point where all we can do is try to make his remaining time as comfortable as he wants, so that puts a damper on my day.
*kicks a pinecone down the sidewalk*
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KaiYves
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 15:21For the sake of clarity, I would like to suggest that people call me Kai Y. so as not to confuse me with our new user Kai D.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 17:55Why not Yves? I kind of like the sound of that name.
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KaiYves
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:35It’s nice, but it would feel like you were calling me by my last name, which would be overly formal.
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Bibliophile
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 19:44Me, too, but a) We’re used to calling her Kai and b) since KaiYves is short for Kaiulani Yves-Costeau, Kai is part of her (imaginary) first name, and Yves is part of her (imaginary) last name, and we don’t generally call friends by their last names, although I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if we did.
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Tesseract
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 20:12Wait, it’s short for something?
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KaiYves
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 21:18Yes, as seen on the original Muse Academy thread. My full online name is Kaiulani Yves-Cousteau, but that’s hard to type and pronounce.
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Jadestone
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 16:54I went on a 3-mileish hike with my bio class today! We actually do this 1-2 times a week, during our lab hour, in nearby forests and fields. Today we went to a local prairie-reconstruction site to look at different types of grasses and trees in the nearby forsests. On our way back to the van, I found much of a young deer skeleton! I took a femur (or possibly humorous) and half a jaw bone. A little further on, we found a much more complete older deer’s skeleton. I got an almost complete skull, another femur, a humorous, some vertebrae, a rib, and what I am pretty sure was part of the pelvis. They’re really cool. Some are also slightly blackened since the prairie land is of course burned every spring, so these bones had all been through the last burn. The teeth in the skull show it especially.
I got almost all the dirt off of all of them, going to rinse them off later and maybe look up how else is best to clean them.
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Vendaval
in May 3rd, 2012 @ 21:52How to Clean Bone
Many thanks to Craig, bona fides of The American Museum of Natural History, and Henry, of Maxilla & Mandible.Cut away most of the flesh. Err on the side of caution, leaving on any flesh if damage could occur to the bone.
Place the bones in a terrarium with museum beetles (Anthrenus museorum), until all visible flesh is removed.
Soak the bones in water, changing the water daily until it runs clear. Bones should not be over-soaked.
Use a toothbrush to remove any contaminants on the surface.
Soak the bones in hydrogen peroxide until bleached.
Rinse the bones with water, let dry completely.That was from memory (well, I had to look up the beetles’ name) and it’s been a whiiiile since I cleaned any bones, but I’m pretty sure that’ll get you museum quality bones. You can skip everything before the brushing, since there’s no flesh.
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Jadestone
in May 4th, 2012 @ 16:45Awesome! I’ll have to either have a creepy thing going on in the bathroom sink or find a bin to soak them in for a bit, they’ve got some dirt lodged in that I can’t get out with sticks. The hydrogen peroxide may have to wait till I get home, I’m more likely to have access to it there.
Thanks a lot!
And man, those beetles sound fun!
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Bibliophile
in May 4th, 2012 @ 18:29I looked them up, and their name comes not from the help they give in cleaning bones but from the fact that they cause damage to some natural history collections.
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Vendaval
in May 5th, 2012 @ 10:26True! “Bow beetles,” they’re also called because they love horsehair.
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Luna the Lovely
in May 5th, 2012 @ 09:50If you took a pic there is a fairly good chance I could tell you whether it’s a femur or a humerus
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Jadestone
in May 4th, 2012 @ 18:26AVENGERS TONIGHT
I’M SO EXCIIIITEEEED
Also going to buy more Magic cards on the way there because I’m dumb, and convinced my roommate to come to the contra dance for one or two dances. And then, AVENGERS
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oxlin
in May 4th, 2012 @ 19:30I got to see The Devil’s Carnival (the next movie from the people who made Repo!: The Genetic Opera) last night! I got to meet Terrence Zdunich, Emilie Autumn, and Darren Lynn Bousman! It was super fun. Time for final papers now!
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Cat's Eye
in May 5th, 2012 @ 00:58Augh my birthday was wonderful
Avengers was great. Everyone should definitely see it, unless they dislike Joss Whedon at his Joss Whedon-iest, in which case I would stay very far away. Mark Ruffalo as Hulk in particular was utterly extraordinary, and I loved what they did with Black Widow.
Also I got gum!! Also I got a very small Tootsie pop and some fanart of Crowley from Good Omens from my very talented friend! And waffles for breakfast and French fries for dinner because shut up I am a healthy human being I DO WHAT I WANT THOR. And awesome sorbet.
Surprisingly enough, seventeen turns out to be a lot like sixteen, only with less bells on.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 5th, 2012 @ 03:57Hello, MuseBlog – I haven’t been on very much these past few days, and I won’t be until my AP Euro exam is over in about six days (oh no oh no oh no…). I’ll catch up with everything once that’s over and done with! Now, back to the grindstone! More studying to do! I’m quite metaphorically screwed!
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 5th, 2012 @ 12:08I just spent some time outside lying in a hammock that’s set up outside my dorm. I now feel like if I had the materials, time, and inclination, I could make myself one.
I am done with my bio exam! This was pretty much the last test I have. Now all I have to do is the Perceval Hollywood adaptation, and I’m home free. Well, not quite free–plane tickets cost money–but you know what I mean.
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Dodecahedron
in May 5th, 2012 @ 12:50Half my suite (not yet I) has what we think is norovirus and it’s finals week
I have four moderately large boxes worth of books in my dorm room and I need to figure out if I’m taking them home and how I’m going to pack them
I need to book transportation to Google by the end of the month and airplanes are literally the worst — within a two hour radius of my house there is one plane that goes to the preferred airport, and it’s at a time where I’d miss the first evening’s events if I took it. And a two hour radius of my house includes New York City. So I guess I’m not going to the preferred airport…
also I never got to put tentacles on my beanbag chair so there’s a bag of stuffing that’s been sitting in my room or in our common room since January
and now it’s May
and I still don’t have time for it
although it doesn’t seem like I’m studying much so far today anywaythings are going pretty well aside from that though — went to a computer science department picnic with a friend yesterday, skyped with the boyfriend and talked about random things (there is only a week until I go home and can see him in person), GOOGLE, etc. I’m really looking forward to finals being over.
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Agent Lightning
in May 5th, 2012 @ 16:52I’m going to see Avengers!
Also, it’s raining very nicely!
And I bought the coolest pair of earrings! They’re red and they go boing!
And then my friend and I conspired over how we are going toDESTROYYELL AT the annoying boys who don’t answer our emails about the Minecraft server!
And did I mention it’s raining? I love rain!
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Jadestone
in May 5th, 2012 @ 18:18Anyone else watch the Kentucky Derby today? I wore my top hat.
I was rooting for Gemologist but am pretty happy I’ll Have Another won.
I always pick horses based on names, how pretty they are, or what weird colors/patterns the jockey is wearing.
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Cerulean Pyros
in May 6th, 2012 @ 10:17I did! I wore my red cloche. I pick horses the same way you do; I was rooting for Daddy Long Legs (who didn’t ever make it to the front of the pack.)
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Trojan Tiger
in May 6th, 2012 @ 14:30Ahh! Hello everyone, I have only been away for a few months at most, but it seems like there are so many new people here! (or old). Nothing much is happening with me. My brother gave me his guitar so I have been playing around with that. Does anyone have easy song suggestions? And there is only about a month left of my freshman year of high school! Then one free week of summer and I start my biotech class which should be very exciting.
Trojan Tiger signing out.
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Trojan Tiger
in May 6th, 2012 @ 14:45SFTDP, it seems like chess has died here, but if anyone wants to play me…
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2012 @ 20:09Trojan Tiger:
Your game with Bibliophile has been classified as abandoned because she did not complete her next move despite repeated requests. Technically, I could have declared the game a forfeit, but I didn’t want to do that while you were away. The game is still on the blog, and you are free to resume it if you both want to.
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Castle
in May 6th, 2012 @ 15:49Seven Nation Army, Smoke On The Water, Redemption Song, Wish You Were Here,
Stairway to Heaven, Through The Fire and Flames.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 6th, 2012 @ 17:53I’M GONNA FIGHT THEM OFF *dun dun da dunn dunn*
A SEVEN NATION ARMY COULDN’T HOLD ME BACK
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Castle
in May 6th, 2012 @ 23:17I have stories to tell about that song. See the R&R thread in a little while once I’ve finished typing up a monster post.
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 6th, 2012 @ 15:00Back from a camping trip with friends. It was glorious! We went hiking off the Blue Ridge Parkway, camped overnight, then hiked more today. I refuse to recognize the fact that I have a final exam tomorrow that will probably be miserable, despite my professors assuring us all that they aren’t trying to kill us. (Hah. They all say that.)
Anyway, it was great.
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Purple Panda
in May 8th, 2012 @ 09:12That is by far the best way to study for finals. I’m glad it was great! (I hope your exam was great, too!)
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2012 @ 16:25Iiiit’s Cskia! And Choklit Orange! And Swalot! And- yes- Rosanne!!
Chok here! We just had the coolest morning. Cskia and Swalot and I went to an awesome mathematics workshop here at Stanford and we got to hear ViHart speak! And build giant balloon tetrahedrons! And then we met up with the flammy Rosanne and walked to the Art museum for lunch. Oh, and Swalot and Cskia are just as adorable in person as they are online.
So this is Cskia! Vi Hart is as awesome in real life as online, and we created such a large balloon tetrahedron, bwahahahaha. Needless to say, Swalot and Chok are the most amazing and intelligent people. Rosanne is also utterly wonderful and brought us roses to eat; the purple one was quite nice ( although I prefer it in my hair than stomach). Anyways, this is a flamablamablous Kokon.
Swalot here! Oh my bob, we (Swalot, Cskia, Rosanne, and CO) went to a math festival! It was so fun! We did many fun things and and and we made a massive tetrahedron out of balloons, and and it made us quite popular since people started talking pictures of us holding it up! Right no we are all enjoying a nice meal in a cafe. The fun continues!
hello! I’m having too much fun to write much now. Choklit Orange just sang the Uruk-hai song, Aerohawk is a math genius and *Cskia is planning to eat her garden of roses!
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Cat's Meow
in May 6th, 2012 @ 16:30Oh my goodness, I am so happy to hear that you all are having so much fun, and yet I am very envious at the same time! I hope to see pictures of all this unfathomable awesomeness!
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Rosanne Spector (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2012 @ 17:37Oops – spelling mistake: I meant AREOHAWK!! (aka Swalot).
And it’s true what they said about the tetrahedron. It was massive and extraordinarily tetrahedral. I have it on good authority that it’s been released into the wild, so you might see it gently rampaging in your neighborhood one of these days.
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muselover
in May 6th, 2012 @ 18:12WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE NICE THINGS
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*Cskia
in May 6th, 2012 @ 19:43COME TO ME I WILL DRAW YOU SOME SQUID
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muselover
in May 6th, 2012 @ 20:32I WOULD IF I LIVED ANYWHERE OTHER THAN SOUTHERN COLORADO
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Bibliophile
in May 6th, 2012 @ 20:48Really? If you lived much farther from her than you do–Antarctica, say, or Tibet, or Equatorial Guinea–you would manage to come to California, but you can’t from southern Colorado?
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muselover
in May 6th, 2012 @ 21:07Wait…where in California?
*muses over visit to San Diego this summer*
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*Cskia
in May 6th, 2012 @ 21:08AIRPLANE OVER AND WE CAN HAVE A HUGE PARTY
AND DOCTOR WHO MARATHONS
AND THEN YOU CAN STAY IN CALIFORNIA FOR, LIKE, FOREVER
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muselover
in May 6th, 2012 @ 22:24NO YOU COME DOWN TO SAN DIEGO
AND WE CAN GO TO BALBOA PARK
AND BELMONT PARK
AND THEN ALL THAT OTHER STUFF YOU SAID
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*Cskia
in May 6th, 2012 @ 23:30I LOOKED IT UP AND THAT TAKES AN EIGHT-HOUR DRIVE
BE RIGHT BACK, OFF TO FIND A TARDIS
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Choklit Orange
in May 7th, 2012 @ 00:26WAIT
I GO THERE EVERY SUMMER
THIS COULD WORK
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muselover
in May 7th, 2012 @ 08:13*muses some more*
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Catwoman
in May 7th, 2012 @ 09:09WHY ARE WE YELLING?
~Castle
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Agent Lightning
in May 7th, 2012 @ 17:04…wait what?
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Catwoman
in May 7th, 2012 @ 18:44castle said that once
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KaiYves
in May 7th, 2012 @ 13:39If *only* I could go to California this summer… and see all of you guys… and go to Disneyland and DCA… and watch the Curiosity landing from JPL…
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 6th, 2012 @ 21:46I’m so glad that you all got together. It’s important every now and then to take time to slow down and eat the roses.
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muselover
in May 6th, 2012 @ 21:57muselover is quite proud that he got that reference.
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oxlin
in May 7th, 2012 @ 01:55Kokons /and/ Vi Hart? Too much awesome! Luckies…
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Agent Lightning
in May 6th, 2012 @ 16:58Concerts next week! Let’s see, I’ll be at a total of four concerts, I’m in three ensembles, I’ll be playing two instruments, one duet with Rachmaninoff, and we’ll have approximately half a band director. Fun stuff!
I saw Avengers! It was really awesome!
Also, I made cookies!
32- That sounds flamablamulous! So glad you all had a great time. And VI HART. That is so cool.
State competition for Battle! Now back to meticulously combing books for Battle. I decided to post practice questions for the one book nobody wanted to post questions for.
Then, standardized tests, and then after that a Williamsburg trip for band!
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 01:01I just finished Mother 3.
The ending made me cry. The first time I watched it online, I cried. The second time, it made me sad, but I didn’t cry.
Playing the game, however, is a whole different experience. Controlling each and every moment of that final battle… And then they all thanked me. It was so touching.If ever, at any time, you get the chance to play this game, do it. It is relatively short for an RPG. I finished with a playtime of about thirty hours, but it could easily be done in twenty.
The game is amazing, hilarious, and most of all, heartbreaking.
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Catwoman
in May 7th, 2012 @ 13:54the same thing happened when i watched “The Grinch Stole Christmas”
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Dodecahedron
in May 7th, 2012 @ 16:57I can’t finish Mother 3 for several reasons, detailed below, but I wish I could :/ glad you enjoyed it, though.
1. I am bad at video games, largely because I lack the years of practice/starting from a young age that many of my peers have.
2. I started a playthrough of Mother 3 on my Wii through an emulator.
3. That Wii is at home and I am at college — saves don’t transfer from Wii to computer versions of emulator
4. I can’t start a new playthrough because of the very sad event which happens very close to the beginning of the game (not spoiling, but you know the one) — I refuse to go through that again.
5. In the playthrough I do have, I accidentally went the wrong direction and now have to go through a creepy tunnel again.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 18:43Well if you ever work up the courage to start over again (or go through the creepy tunnel), let me know!
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oxlin
in May 7th, 2012 @ 01:58All theatre techies to the Hare and Hedgepig! Please?
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 7th, 2012 @ 10:55I am in denial about the fact that I have a final in a few hours. Nope. That’s definitely not a thing that’s happening.
The professors say that they’re not trying to kill us, that if we did the readings and attended classes and thought at least a little bit then it’ll be a breeze.
That’s what they all say. *skeptical Fern is skeptical*
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 12:31By the next time we hear from you, you’ll know for sure. Good luck!
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 7th, 2012 @ 16:12They lied.
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KaiYves
in May 7th, 2012 @ 19:54They do that a lot.
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bookgirl_me
in May 7th, 2012 @ 16:32Ah, life is good. My first two written Matura exams are over, only Math’s left and I have tomorrow off because I’m not taking written French, though I’ve been helping out some friends who are.
It’s slowly starting to sink in that school is over and that I’m a officially a Maturantin, i.e. no longer a high school student but still waiting to take the final exams. I’ve been listening to “Nie mehr Schule” on an endless loop for hours now and if I stop, it’ll be to stay up ridiculously late and watch the extended edition of “The Return of the King”. Plus, I’m feeling almost giddily proud that I could’ve taken the exams for both other written subjects- Latin and French- and (easily) gotten As as well. For some reason, it’s kind of there’s a “works hard but hardly works” on everyone else. Especially since V officially has the highest GPA, it’s a sort of vindictive pleasure when people ask me why I’m not taking the Matura in *subject* and I have to find a non-arrogant way of telling them that I’m effing excellent in 12 subjects and pretty pieing good in the other 2, but unfortunately I could only pick 5 but it was a tough choice, obviously*.
Of course, I’ve still got plenty of papers and exams to go, but somehow it’s impossible to be unhappy when I’m so damn proud of myself. Considering the circumstances, high school was awesome, and to be honest, there’s nothing I really regret. ‘Kay, I’m going to go shower my very swelled head now before it explodes
*Note: since most people have trouble coming up with five subjects that they’re reasonably good at, saying something like this will get you thrown out a window. Hence the discretion.
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*Cskia
in May 7th, 2012 @ 19:25I finished a picture of the GAPAs in their first set of May Day Ball costumes. I just need to scan it and send it now.
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POSOC
in May 7th, 2012 @ 20:07Does anyone remember the thread where everyone talked in questions for dozens of posts on end? I wish MB’s comments were searchable…
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 21:03Ah, a true classic:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=6391#comment-396227
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Tesseract
in May 7th, 2012 @ 21:07I love MuseBlog.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 21:41Isn’t it grand?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 22:29One of our finest hours, don’t you think?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 7th, 2012 @ 21:13Wait, I mean: are you talking about this one? Wasn’t that a classic?
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POSOC
in May 7th, 2012 @ 22:07Thank you very much. This should go in the MB Hall of Fame.
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Agent Lightning
in May 9th, 2012 @ 17:09Shouldn’t it though?
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oxlin
in May 8th, 2012 @ 03:23Why I certainly think so, don’t you?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 8th, 2012 @ 05:28Need you ask?
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Bibliophile
in May 8th, 2012 @ 17:01Oh, hurrah, are we doing this again? I was there, and d’you know what I don’t understand? Why did I just sit there pieing posts instead of adding to the conversation? Apparently, though, I can get that missed opportunity back now, can’t I?
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Cat's Eye
in May 9th, 2012 @ 21:47Why wouldn’t you be able to? Don’t you love this community?
Does anyone else remember using this game as an acting exercise, like Freeze Tag or Honey I Love You? If so, were you as obsessed with it as we were?
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Purple Panda
in May 8th, 2012 @ 09:15So much pink.
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:48Haha, pink posts much?
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:48Isn’t it a great coincidence that I was just reading that thread before you even mentioned it?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:53Were you really? Isn’t that something?
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Tesseract
in May 8th, 2012 @ 20:38I am ashamed to live in North Carolina.
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Koko's Apprentice
in May 8th, 2012 @ 20:48I saw that
I’m so sorry.
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 8th, 2012 @ 21:01Me too, even though I’m not from here, and I only spend…well, 8 out of 12 months here.
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Koppar
in May 8th, 2012 @ 21:27Likewise.
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KaiYves
in May 9th, 2012 @ 08:46So I presume you’re “First in Flight” away from the stare?
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KaiYves
in May 9th, 2012 @ 16:22Cake you, autocorrect, that last word was supposed to be “state”.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 9th, 2012 @ 14:05*looks up* *raises eyebrows in shock* *punches computer*
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Agent Hippie
in May 10th, 2012 @ 15:25Same here, and I am from here.
Sigh…
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Piggy
in May 8th, 2012 @ 21:30Hm, I haven’t posted much in the last couple days, have I? I’ve been working my way through a list of recommended coffeehouses. I also ordered a fancy electric kettle (the Cuisinart CPK-17 PerfecTemp, if you’re curious) so I don’t have to try and guess what temperature my water is based on how it looks and sounds. I bought myself an ounce of Wenshan Baozhong and two ounces of Tung Ting oolong, and as soon as this year’s Shincha Houryoku arrives, I’ll buy a couple ounces of that too. I also bought myself We Love Katamari, which is how I’ll be spending all day tomorrow.
Today’s coffeehouse was downtown, so after I finished reading what I wanted to read, I took a little walk, and I happened across an interesting-looking bookstore. It’s clearly the type that exists primarily to house the owner’s collection, and secondarily to pull in enough money to keep the place afloat. I purchased Marquez’s El amor en los tiempos del cólera as well as a book called Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman. I felt it very fitting that the latter book was right next to volume two of Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe–I know that Herriman has been a big influence on Gonick, especially in regards to Kokonino County, so it must have been some trick of fate that the two books shared a shelf. I wanted to get a copy of Cather’s A Lost Lady, since for some reason I don’t already own one, but the only copy they had was a first edition and a bit too fragile to read.
Astonishingly, I’m still cranking away at the kanji. The past month of school has been outrageous, so I had to take an extended break from adding new ones, but I’m at 1389 now and back in a pretty good rhythm. I found an excellent podcast to listen to as well–all it is is a lady telling a very short (two minutes, tops) fairy tale/bedtime story sort of thing. I still haven’t formally studied any vocab or grammar, but I can pick up a few things here and there, and with the different voices and the little music-box melodies it’s immensely relaxing in a weird sort of way.
I taught myself how to play Go a few nights ago. I don’t suppose there’s a Go plugin for WordPress, eh?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 9th, 2012 @ 14:10Larry Gonick acknowledges Krazy Kat as a major influence. (Others he notes are Walt Kelly’s Pogo, which also played a clear role in shaping Bill Watterson’s drawing style; and — for “Raw Materials” — Quino’s comic strip Mafalda.)
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Choklit Orange
in May 8th, 2012 @ 22:38So for the last, I don’t know, couple of decades, my school district- like most others- has been slowly being defunded. The past couple of years it got really bad. They’ve been cutting programs left and right- and they were talking about cutting 7th period, library time, and most counselors next year. I’ve been terrified. My friends and I spent a lot of time campaigning for a new parcel tax measure, which would give money directly to the schools so they wouldn’t have to cut anything else for the time being. It seemed like a long shot.
It passed.
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KaiYves
in May 9th, 2012 @ 08:48Congrats! One step closer to our New World Order!
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oxlin
in May 9th, 2012 @ 14:01Yay! I remember when something similar passed in my district and I started crying with relief.
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Mikazuki
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:02My school district is in the situation that you describe–very far in debt–and I understand what it’s like. That’s absolutely wonderful that you got that.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 11th, 2012 @ 04:14Yes! That’s absolutely wonderful! Great job!
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oxlin
in May 9th, 2012 @ 14:01Got a B- on my final paper, which wasn’t quite as high as I would have liked (I liked this paper! It was fun to write and I thought I made my points well) but I got a B+ in the class, which was higher than I expected so I guess it all evens out. My professor seemed to have liked my final paper too.
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in May 9th, 2012 @ 15:29that time I didn’t do any work and watched mashups of songs with videos made from Homestuck panels/clips
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KaiYves
in May 9th, 2012 @ 16:28I finished my last exam, but I’m worried about how I did. (I always knew not being able to spell “Schliemann” without looking it up would bite me in the butt someday.) And I still don’t know about the internship I want or about my housing for next year…
But on the bright side, I got an A in Computer Science 101 and today’s Howard Carter Google Doodle is flammy.
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oxlin
in May 9th, 2012 @ 19:46Packing is better when you’re listening to the Repo!: The Genetic Opera Soundtrack!
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Choklit Orange
in May 9th, 2012 @ 20:31Play the Requiem for a Dreamsoundtrack while making a sandwich. Just do it. Your life will be better.
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KaiYves
in May 10th, 2012 @ 08:45Running for a bus while playing the Superman theme!
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muselover
in May 10th, 2012 @ 18:03Finishing a test and turning on the Back to the Future theme!
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in May 10th, 2012 @ 19:03Doing anything while listening to “I Am the Doctor”!
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 19:54Bum bum buh dee duh duh dum du…
I can play that on my saxophone. (Also, as a random side note, the Doctor Who theme on a trombone mouthpiece. Yeah)
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Tesseract
in May 9th, 2012 @ 21:24Band feelings/graduation feelings below.
My sophomore year of band, we played a piece called Mannin Veen. Sophomore year is when I fell in love with being in band, and that piece is when I fell in love with music. The piece is beautiful and displays a depth of emotion I’ve heard in few other band pieces since… Or maybe it’s just that it evokes that emotion for me, because I have so many memories wrapped up in this one song. In a way, it is band for me.
We’re playing it again this year, as our senior song. It’s much rougher, with less rehearsal time and a not nearly so polished band, but the first time we read through it again I could feel myself getting emotional. And then—there’s a part, a clarinet duet. It follows the trumpet solo that moved me so much sophomore year. Two seniors, two of my good friends, one of them one of my best friends, play it. They play it with a nostalgic lilt to it, and there’s something about it, something about the juxtaposition of the memory of Nathan’s trumpet solo sophomore year with Zack and Adam’s duet in the final piece of our band career, that makes me feel a little more like crying every time we get to it.
Mannin Veen is band, from beginning to end. I say often and easily that band has been the best thing about high school for me, but I do not think I can ever fully express how much it has really meant to me. I didn’t know what I was signing up for in eighth grade. It’s a community. It’s been how I’ve met or gotten close to some of my best friends. It was the first place I felt like I fit with a group of people, like there was a spot for me, like I was valued and not just accepted. It helped me grow exponentially as a person, from a kid who was too scared to talk to anyone on the first day of band camp to a leader who can command and teach and earn the respect of a section and present to and convince adults about what I feel is important. I can express myself better. I have self-confidence. I have passion, something that used to worry me with its absence. I have a group of people whose dynamic makes me feel completely, perfectly at home, and happy with being me.
I can’t reduce it to a list of points, but band has made me who I am, and it has made me like being that person. It has made high school for me, and I can only hope that I’ll someday again be part of something that makes me feel like this.
One more concert. Mannin Veen, senior roses, the band banquet. Willing down my captain necklace, the presidential plastic boombox, the hedgehog binder I’ve been patching together with tie-dye duct tape for four years.
And then it’s over. And I don’t know how to wrap my mind around that.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 9th, 2012 @ 22:43It’s kind of weird how I never made a post about this sort of thing. Actually wait a sec, I think I did make one two years ago.
Anyway, I totally agree. Junior year was very sad, since all the seniors that I’d played with since I was a freshman were leaving, but senior year topped it somehow.
We have a goodbye concert every year, and every year we play Ashokan Farewell as the very last piece, as a goodbye to everyone. It was INCREDIBLY sad when I fully realized (about halfway through the piece) that they were saying farewell to ME.
During the same concert, we played our “senior song:” O Mio Babbino Caro. But this was no ordinary piece. Way back in eighth grade, his first year of teaching in the district, our orchestra teacher arranged this piece for us to play. It was literally FOR our year. And we played it as one of the last pieces we would ever play together.
There’s this piece, an arrangement of “America the Beautiful,” that my district plays ALL THE TIME because it includes all three areas: Band, orchestra, and choir. I had been playing it every year at All-City since middle school. Our school also played it every year at graduation. I had HATED it before–it had a very boring cello part and didn’t sound very good at all. But then came MY graduation. I played it, wearing my graduation robe and the lei that all orchestra seniors receive, and it was beautiful. It was also the last time I would ever, ever be playing with all those people gathered together, and the last time that my orchestra teacher would ever conduct us. It had me in tears.
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 15:35I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT
…and I’m only in eighth grade. I don’t know where I’d be without band, but I am so happy I joined back in sixth grade.
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Tesseract
in May 10th, 2012 @ 19:31AL, this is probably weird, but I am so excited for you to do high school band. You’re going to love it so much.
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 19:49*has just gotten back from jazz band’s performance at sixth grade concert*
Thank you! And that’s not weird at all. I’m excited, too.
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Tesseract
in May 10th, 2012 @ 20:08(Except for that your high school’s marching band probably competes against mine.)
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 11th, 2012 @ 08:13(Ooh, a blog band rivalry!)
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in May 11th, 2012 @ 17:03(And our band members will be competing against each other for honors band spots.)
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Tesseract
in May 13th, 2012 @ 20:19(Probably. If possible, sabotage all auditioning oboists from your school. One of my best friends is a junior this year.)
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in May 9th, 2012 @ 21:51Hey!
It’s kind of weird how out of all the experiences your life holds– all the books you’ve read, the things you’ve seen, the places you’ve been, the reasons you’ve laughed and cried and been truly angry, the people you’ve loved, the people who’ve loved you, the lives you’ve changed and saved, the multitude of ways the world is different and better because you are in it– out of all those, the ones that people think are important, the ones they say will affect the rest of your life, are the ones where you fill in little bubbles with a number two pencil.
AP testing was this week, if you couldn’t tell. Also, I’m drawing up a college resume for my college counselor, and I can’t seem to find a space for MuseBlog to go. Is it under Community Service, Employment, or Honors and Awards?
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Dodecahedron
in May 9th, 2012 @ 22:04probably Honors and Awards … isn’t there a spot for Extracurricular Activities, though?
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Vendaval
in May 10th, 2012 @ 05:14don’t forget High Priestess of Dischordianism under Honors and Awards!
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Maths Lover ♥
in May 10th, 2012 @ 02:082nd-last period + a dozen nerdier-than average classmates + cool physics teacher + lift + scale + study of Netwon’s 2nd law + jumping –> crazy giggling + slightly annoyed staff + enough time left to finish our textbook problem + fun
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KaiYves
in May 10th, 2012 @ 08:43I approve of hands-on physics experiments.
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Agent Lightning
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:47What do you mean, crazy giggling isn’t a valid thing to put on the product side of a chemical equation?
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Drama Llama
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:42OH YEAH!!!! My birthday is FINALLY on the “Coming Soon” tab!! YES!!
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KaiYves
in May 10th, 2012 @ 17:47I took care of my housing arrangements today, and my mom will help me pack when she comes on Saturday, which means that I have tomorrow free.
Where should I go?
A. Museum of Science
B. New England Aquarium
C. Harvard Museum of Natural History(I was just at the MIT Museum a few weeks ago for the Cambridge Science Festival, so I’d rather go somewhere I haven’t been in a while, and I don’t really want to go to the MFA without my mom there to enjoy it with.)
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oxlin
in May 10th, 2012 @ 19:16C!
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Bibliophile
in May 10th, 2012 @ 20:05I’m inclined to agree with you, since it’s so awesome, but as I live in Texas, C is the only one of those places I’ve even been to. For all I know, it technically is possible that the others could be even better, although it’s certainly hard to imagine.
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Enceladus
in May 10th, 2012 @ 20:22Museum of Science! I recommend it for no other reason than that it is probably the most formative place of my childhood.
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Pseudonym
in May 10th, 2012 @ 21:35I would pick the Aquarium for that. I spent quite a lot of my childhood there.
The Natural History Museum always scared me a little – it is filled with slightly peeling taxidermied animals and there is a preserved cealocanth (I don’t know how this is spelled) that always disgusted me when we went on school trips. I haven’t been in a couple of years, though, so this judgment is probably completely misplaced.
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Reasons.
in May 10th, 2012 @ 21:42I just thought I needed a place to discuss the way my mind has been running these past few weeks. I couldn’t think of anywhere else to post it, so here goes:
Cosmic indifference is a depressing concept. Frankly, it scares me. Our entire civilization (to crappily paraphrase A Pale Blue Dot) lives on a speck of dust suspended in endless space. And we don’t matter. Even if we are the only intelegent life in the universe, we’re just a curiosity. Our time will come, and then it will go. And we’ll be gone; no one will care.
I don’t really know how this came to occupy the forefront of my mind. All I know is that it’s really hard to have your brain confront you with its own insignificance day after day. And I don’t know how to use that knowlage in a positive way, either. So it just swirls around in my brain.
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Lizzie
in May 11th, 2012 @ 07:56As individuals, we probably aren’t terribly significant in the cosmic scheme of things.
But we don’t live our lives on a cosmic scale.
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KaiYves
in May 11th, 2012 @ 08:21How to use that knowledge in a positive way? Perhaps as an inspiration to deal more kindly with one’s fellow inhabitants of this speck? That’s what it is for me.
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Reasons.
in May 11th, 2012 @ 14:26That’s indeed true. Words to live by, right there.
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Vendaval
in May 12th, 2012 @ 00:13I find it dreadfully depressing, myself.
The struggle for meaning is constant.
But our experience is simply perception,
and I make my own purpose.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 11th, 2012 @ 04:04Finished with AP Euro!! It’s a huge relief. That was my last AP exam ever (though admittedly, only my second, after French last year)! Now I can relax and do nothing!
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 11th, 2012 @ 12:45I am at Hershey park, on my phone. Roller coasters~
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 11th, 2012 @ 13:33You’re not posting messages to the blog while riding a roller coaster, are you?
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 11th, 2012 @ 17:13No, unfortunately. They generally frown on that sort of thing.
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Reasons.
in May 11th, 2012 @ 17:02Oh In Cold Blood essay, how I despise you. It’s friday and I’d much rather catch up on Sherlock. And Community. And Eureka. And The Daily Show. And Fringe.
I’m now considering the option that I might be watching too many Tv shows.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 11th, 2012 @ 17:14Totally off-topic, but your avatar is made of win.
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Bibliophile
in May 11th, 2012 @ 18:29I suppose that means I should know what it is, doesn’t it?
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Agent Lightning
in May 11th, 2012 @ 19:14I don’t know what it means, either.
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Reasons.
in May 11th, 2012 @ 19:45My avatar is M.C Escher’s “Drawing Hands” lithograph. It’s one of those wonderful paradoxical images. Similar to the Lego thing on the front of last month’s Muse (I think).
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 12th, 2012 @ 05:49I have an entire book of Escher’s drawings. I love optical illusions.
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Reasons.
in May 12th, 2012 @ 18:22Yea, optical illusions are indeed interesting. It’s very cool how many gaps exist in our perception.
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KaiYves
in May 11th, 2012 @ 18:02At the Museum of Science, waiting for planetarium show to start, they are playing the Star Trek theme!
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Choklit Orange
in May 11th, 2012 @ 18:28Is it normal to walk about in a constant state of amazement?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 11th, 2012 @ 20:09Perhaps not normal, but usually appropriate.
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Bibliophile
in May 11th, 2012 @ 21:07Oh, no, that state of being is far above average.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 11th, 2012 @ 23:20You are currently on a ball of water and rock inhabited by thousands of species, hurtling around a gigantic fireball on the fringe of an impossibly vast universe. Seems understandable.
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:04More like millions of species, actually, although there’s so much argument about the nature of species that it’s hard to judge.
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Piggy
in May 11th, 2012 @ 20:00Since everyone’s posting from interesting locations: I’m at a show by the band that my sister’s boyfriend plays in. In their first set they went from Dr. Horrible to “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” to a medley of “Space Oddity” and “Rocket Man” to Irish folk music. I think you guys would like it.
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Piggy
in May 11th, 2012 @ 20:01Oh, and the vocalist looks exactly like Alan Tudyk. It’s incredible.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 11th, 2012 @ 23:14The Washpocalypse is spreading to the offline world. CASTLE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
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Piggy
in May 11th, 2012 @ 23:30It was an evening of celebrity lookalikes–the owner of the coffee shop looked a lot like Chris O’Dowd (Roy from The IT Crowd). It was all a bit surreal.
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Castle
in May 12th, 2012 @ 10:34something amazing
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 12th, 2012 @ 17:29There was a guy in my Intro Environmental Studies class who looked an awful lot like Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory on Doctor Who. We sat next to each other. I spent a lot of time pondering their resemblance.
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The Bookworm
in May 12th, 2012 @ 00:58Hello lovely musebloggers, I have a brief query. Anyone have any experience with (seeing, working on, acting in, hearing about) the stage adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury adapted it himself)? We’re debating doing it next year at my school (I’m part of the vague committee who selects the theatre season (by committee I mean me and two of my friends who the theatre teacher gave the power to because he has cancer currently)) and I was just wondering if anyone had any experiences with it. (I’m reading the script right now.)
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oxlin
in May 12th, 2012 @ 03:31GUYS. There is a Science Fiction Studies journal on Jstor!! Definitely taking PDFs off there to read over the summer once I’ve graduated. I will miss Jstor.
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KaiYves
in May 12th, 2012 @ 14:18I have an idea for a children’s TV show, and I’d like to do… group brainstorming is the best word, I guess… here to help sort of expand on the idea and work on the storyline, but everything I’ve read about writing says you shouldn’t post ideas you want to publish online, because everyone can see (and steal) them. But I really want all of your help with this. What should I do?
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muselover
in May 12th, 2012 @ 15:05MuseBlog has this wonderful thing called robots.txt. I think your ideas are safe.
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:10What’s that?
Anyway, unless that’s better than my idea, I recommend discussing it on the paleo threads–not because MuseBloggers who’ve been here for six or more months are necessarily more trustworthy but because a) the fewer people there are, the less likely it is that any of them are untrustworthy and b) an untrustworthy non-MuseBlogger could find it with Yahoo or something by mistake if it’s on a normal thread.
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Vendaval
in May 13th, 2012 @ 23:47Search engines work by using programs called spiders to crawl through the entire internet, noting each page’s content and importance. robots.txt tells these robots what to do. In MuseBlog’s case, it says something like HUMANS ONLY – ROBOTS GO AWAY.
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Vendaval
in May 13th, 2012 @ 23:57I should add that this is terribly offensive to those of us who are partially robot.
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KaiYves
in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:57Okay. Should we do the discussion here or in one of the writing threads?
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Catwoman
in May 12th, 2012 @ 15:01i made a cheesecake today because it’s my dad’s birthday
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shadowfire
in May 12th, 2012 @ 15:21I have returned from New Orleans! There are a lot of things I’d like to talk about but I’m a little fried right now. Prepare for a wall o’ text later.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 12th, 2012 @ 15:22What do you guys think of Mayeiou as a name for this thread?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 12th, 2012 @ 15:35Funny that you should say that….
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 12th, 2012 @ 17:36So I came home form college a few days ago. Finished all of my finals, turned in my last paper a half hour before it was due (that was the Perceval paper). So glad that’s over with. Now I’m trying to figure out what i’m doing this summer—get a job, internship, volunteer.
But I don’t actually want to work on that right now. And I think that my bed, my real bed at home, has got the most amazing soporific power known to mankind. It’s so comfortable. And sleep-inducing. *yaawn* Even looking at it is making me sleepy….
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 12th, 2012 @ 21:19Last night, I fell asleep watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Needless to say, my dreams were pretty weird…
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Catwoman
in May 12th, 2012 @ 22:12yea i am watching “The Creature From The Black Lagoon” right now. and i’ve gotta say: it’s pretty sweet now but tonight i will probably dream of fish like i did the last time i watched that movie… isn’t it funny how movies and TV shows can make you dream of things like that?
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 12th, 2012 @ 22:03I’m back in the Land of Merries!
Everything smells so good here! The house! My room! The air! No more smelly freshman dorm. No more smelly dorm period. I loved my building, but still. The funk does get old occasionally. It’s even got a name. It’s a little weird.
Aaaaand I’m now a rising sophomore in college WHAT HOW DID THIS HAPPEN I’VE DEFS NOT BEEN THERE A WHOLE YEAR ALREADY THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE, IS IT?
Obviously though something has changed, because I’m all riled up about politics and I am working on infuriating my Dear Conservative Friend on voldynet. I will shake my dreadlocks at you and roar about reproductive rights and equal marriage! RAWR!
And I kind of want to text/call ALL MY PEEPS from school and then sob because I won’t get to see their beautiful faces* for several months, and that is SAD. But I know they’re all travelling/catching up with family and friends/sleeping/whatever-ing and I am also doing those things, BUT STILL.
(*seriously. I’ve got me some drop-dead GORGEOUS friends.)I cannot believe I am here for THREE months. Which is actually only TWO, because I’ve got a month of sailing in the middle.
Also, starting an English Country Dance group at the 18th century fort nearby? YES, PLEASE. LET ME DREDGE THE INTERNETS FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO BE A CALLER KTHANXBAI I’LL GET RIGHT ON THAT AND BE READY FOR TOMORROW, I AM USED TO NO SLEEP DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME.
It’s kind of sad how true that is, though.Oh ugh I still need to unpack the rest of the car. >.<
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 12th, 2012 @ 22:10Did the spam-filter eat my comment, or is WordPress just being silly?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 12th, 2012 @ 22:18Spam filter. Now retrieved.
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Piggy
in May 12th, 2012 @ 23:23A very lovely and busy day today. My mom and I went to the farmer’s market this morning, and we bought quite a bit. For planting: tomatoes, thyme, and parsley. For eating: enchiladas, radishes, sugar snap peas, asparagus, a loaf of blue cheese bread, and some chorizo. It seems like there were a lot more Asian farmers here this year, which meant a lot of bok choy and baby bok choy as well as some Chinese spinach. My mom’s not a fan of either, so we didn’t get any, but sometime I will get some and try some sort of a stir-fry. I’ll have to look at some recipes and get some ideas.
Anyway, once we got home and got the rest of our stuff planted, I went to my cousin’s wedding and reception. The reception was at a very interesting location–a berry farm and pumpkin patch, specifically in what was at least nominally a barn, just a stone’s throw from a renaissance festival they were having this weekend. It was probably the most crowded reception I’ve ever been to, but luckily there were several factors that protected my sanity. First, the food was excellent–best ham I’ve ever eaten. Second, there were packs of cards at all the tables. Third, my second cousin, whom I don’t see too often, was there, and he’s the pleasantly nerdy type. Lastly, and most importantly: sometime after dinner, my mom and I stepped outside to get some fresh air and take a break from the noise and the crowd. After walking around and looking at the ren fest performers setting up camp for the night, one of the farm’s employees lit a big bonfire just outside the barn, and shortly thereafter someone brought out materials for s’mores. Now this was my kind of wedding reception. I can’t say I’ve ever made s’mores in a suit before, and I doubt I ever will again, but it was great. And quiet.
And then we went home and I drank a couple pots of Wenshan Baozhong with help from my new kettle. That is some incredible tea. I only bought an ounce of it–it’s about $125 a pound from the place I buy from (compared to the ~$20 per pound of my daily drinking tea)–so I’ll have to save it for special occasions. But it’s fantastic.
And now I should go to bed. No, wait–kanji first, then bed. We must have our priorities straight.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 00:25Today I was watching the movie “Underworld”, and there was a group called the Death Dealers. Combined with all the dark goffik vampires in the movie, I absolutely could not take it seriously.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 13th, 2012 @ 03:59AAAAHHH That’s hilarious!
I have to say that I absolutely love My Immortal because it’s so bad.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 10:57stop flaming ok! I dntn red all da boox! dis is frum da movie ok so itz nut my folt if dumbeldor swers! besuizds I SED HE HAD A HEDACHE!
– the quote I am obliged to put whenever someone mentions that
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 12:56alll yu cakeng prepps and poseurs stop flaming my story!!!!!!!!! ur just jalous!!11 USUK!!!!!
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 00:31So remember how my house and everything about it smells really good? That still applies, but I caught a whiff of my pajamas when I pulled them out of my duffel bag and then sudden wave of homesickness for North Carolina.
My emotions are apparently very closely linked with my olfaction.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 00:39A day
I had one.
Last night had a semi-sleepover (we mostly wandered home eventually after varous stages of cuddlng/falling asleep/waking up to go back to room to get real sleep) after watching Little Shop of Horrors with most of my Vascular Plant Systematics class.
Then this morning that class went to the botanical garden. It was fun. I saw lots of butterflies and some herps and of course many many plants. Then stopped bye the geology major picnic at one of the department char’s houses, where we ate food and played croquet with a lot of the teachers. It was fun but I am not very good at croquet.
Then, squidmas! Sci-fi hall secret santa/xmas variation, happens once a semester. I gave someone 5 magic cards with homestuck characters (and one with just a squid saying “merry squidmas”) painted onto them, and I got a set of paper homestuck/doctor who puppets on sticks and a little sburb picture stage-background. It’s really adorable. I’m going to come up with a story and videotape it or something.
Theeeen I went to a friend’s bday party for a little while. It was disney/childhood movie themed so I wore my Toothless hoodie. Just talked/hung out mostly and helped clean up afterwards.
Back in my room now and super tired x_x Maybe sleep? Maybe Animorphs. WHO KNOWS. WHAT FINALS THIS WEEK. WHAT GIANT PROJECT.
Because OH BY THE WAY I had my classes of the year on friday :'( I’m not ready for the year to be overrrr
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:17There’s a squidmas in May? Because the Internet also has a Cephalopodmas in December.
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KaiYves
in May 13th, 2012 @ 15:32My friend Erin celebrates Fishmas.
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Jadestone
in May 14th, 2012 @ 09:49There is also a Squidmas in December! Two every year.
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 01:15oh i have an idea for the theme of this thread! how about it be he-man based like… uh the grayskull thread or something! the sword of power? the orange and green cat thread? the battlecat thread? SOMETHING?!?
oh right… sorry. you don’t know about he-man right
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*Cskia
in May 13th, 2012 @ 02:02Actually, I was watching random YouTube videos about him just last night. My friend was very, VERY amused.
We also saw a meteor. It was a gorgeous streak of blue. Unrelated, but awesome.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 13th, 2012 @ 04:03Actually, right now we’re doing a themed year, so all the months will each be dedicated to a different Muse!
And yes, I will have to say that I don’t know anything about He-Man. Only that ridiculous (yet hilarious!) YouTube video that’s been circling as of late! It always ends up being played while I’m trying to do work.
Most of my nostalgic television stuffs comes from the late 1990’s to early 2000’s. And my parents wouldn’t let me watch anything but PBS.
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:35oh in that case i thnk this month’s Muse should be Feather because it’s so close to the planting season
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:36SFTDP
but last month should have been Crraw because it was national poetry month.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 13th, 2012 @ 20:04Well, Crraw was used for March, so though you make a fair point, it wouldn’t have been the best idea to use Crraw twice in a row.
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muselover
in May 13th, 2012 @ 01:31I watched Donnie Darko tonight.
I think I need to pick my brain up off the floor.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 05:54Oh look, it’s Mother’s Day. I got my mom an “Of Monsters And Men” CD and a book. And I’m going to cook dinner tonight.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 08:27In my dream last night I was one of the students in a sort-of?-modern-day Les Mis. Then Voldemort turned up at the cafe behind the barricade during the battle and we left because I had to defeat him. We ended up in a dangerous labyrinth and I kept trying to make him fall to his death which obviously wasn’t working. Don’t worry, I defeated him in the end.
(…My dreams are the WEIRDEST.)
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bookgirl_me
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:39In my dream last night, I was chased by the homicidal minions of some form of new totalitarian regime and couldn’t find the right subway platform and ended up hiding, deciphering a code and drinking white wine (though not necessarily in that order) until I figured it all out, accidentally left my fellow freedom fighters/fellow survivors to be clubbed to death by the evil minions, found the fight platform but took of riding a bike instead of waiting for the subway and somehow went from downtown (skyscrapers, NYC-vibe, only cleaner) to the middle of low-income suburbia where weird flat bush-trees grew.
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Four nights before that, I dreamed that my friend’s sponsor somehow fell in front of a subway train, I tried to drag her out but was to late and she died.
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And then there was the time when the religion class all decided to go drinking at this irish/western hybrid bar, or when I was Napoleon-only-better and the stupid bureaucrats wanted to cut all my funding and use it to dye all the flags lavender, or the one with mathematical functions in red bathing shorts, or the starfish that ate my latin textbook after I lost to Chad (the Muse) at chess, or… I could go on. But somehow, subways have bad timing in my dreams.
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small but fierce
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:26In my dream last night, a miniature Hunger Games with many of my friends as participants took place in the school’s gym.
It was, strangely enough, oil-themed; this meant we basically just dumped oil all over ourselves.
None of us really wanted to fight each other, so we mostly just hung out and stabbed our friends’ feet halfheartedly until they let us leave.
Afterwards I realized my undergarments could shoot knives.this is my mind~
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Tesseract
in May 13th, 2012 @ 20:15Of COURSE MuseBlog would be the place with people whose dreams are weirder than mine.
SBF, I’ve had Hunger Games dreams too. Most of them involve people giving up on the concept.
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Agent Lightning
in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:34Mine involved my sister giving me a Hunger Games t-shirt.
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small but fierce
in May 16th, 2012 @ 19:54Snazzy.
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bookgirl_me
in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:24I’m very, very glad I haven’t dreamed about the Hunger Games, because a lot of my classmates have seen Battle Royale and would probably start a) slaughtering each other and b) stab me in the back after dealing with the biggest physical threats because I’m the “smart one”.
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Mikazuki
in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:19Modern day Les Mis? We should do this.
That…might..not…eh, it will work!
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 13th, 2012 @ 09:52New iPod (Classic)! It arrived a few days ago so now I’ve been faffing around with iTunes trying to organise all my music, which is currently a mess. Not the most interesting of tasks, but the end result will be most enjoyable.
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Castle
in May 13th, 2012 @ 12:15I’ve got a 32 gb touch and I only just got all my music arranged correctly. I’ve got a little over 1600 tracks. It took FOREVER, and now I’m doing it again for my dad’s new Droid.
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bookgirl_me
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:41I still adore my good ol’ shuffle, a small pink thing which simply won’t die. It’s more than five years old and has been splashed, scratched, dropped, sat on- you name it, it happened to it.
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 15:38I don’t have an iPod. I just… never felt the need.
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Catwoman
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:33was it downloaded into your computer harddrive?
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 15:21Nah. The thing is, we (my sister and I) used to only be allowed to use a computer after both of my parents were done with them and they often crashed. So my I-pod has outlasted three computers and 5-7 major crashes (major= loss of all my playlists etc), plus incalculable hard drives and misc. other electronic devices- somehow, the safest way to take care of it is to let it be and try not to get it too wet.
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Bibliophile
in May 13th, 2012 @ 14:21I was gone for most of the weekend because my mother decided to visit hers for Mother’s Day, and of course I came, too. The visit was nice. The restaurant we went to was nice, too. We also went to a park that was one of the most formative places of my childhood but is far from where I live now, which was wonderful. I saw bees the size of mosquitoes! At least, I think they were bees. They looked like bees, and they buzzed and pollinated flowers.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 15:02Today I discovered that I had won one of the much-coveted raffle baskets at church, which are a fundraiser for… um, the preschools, I think. I had put all of my tickets into the very popular gift card basket, and it turns out I actually won. So I divvied up the gift cards with my family and enjoyed going on an iTunes shopping spree. ‘Twas fun. And I promise I will do that monsterpost because I always monsterpost about concert week. It was… a monsterpost-deserving week, and more than concerts went on, believe me.
Some rather memorable quotes:
“They’re putting on fedoras now– it’s getting serious.”
“Have you heard any good insurance jokes lately?”
“I invited Paperclip.”
“I’ll be happy if we don’t get ninth place.”
“The URL is musefanpage.com/blog.”
“My daughter is doing strange things with fedoras! I need to call a hotline!”
“You made me realize how shallow some of my friends are.”
“He has no emotions.”
“Pink dress, pink shoes, white sweater… and a black hat.”
“And a pencil in her hair.”
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Mikazuki
in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:45Sounds awesome! xD
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Agent Lightning
in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:54Thanks.
I’m trying to get that monsterpost together but THINGS KEEP HAPPENING and I’m trying to wait for a good conclusion.
“He can’t do this to you. He just can’t.”
“Your name is Al now.”
“I didn’t take my meds today…”
“All I need is a fez and a bowtie and I’ll be Doctor Who. And a broom.”
“It was a mop.”
“I had better get into college for this!”
“Why are there so many bags in your locker? Are you hoarding them?”
“Now I’m off to see the Wizard, tell him I’m overreacting.”
“Hello. I am doctor Wizard (Phil) and I am here to make you feel temporarily more secure about yourself.”
“Did you really dent Paperclip’s trombone? Because I told him I’d kill you.”
“Are you genuinely angry or just having mood swings?”
“Agent Lightning used Unhelpful Air Guitar! It’s super effective!”
“Critical hit!… but you don’t want him to faint…”
“NO! NOT THE INSURANCE JOKES!”
“I’m backing away now… she looks angry…”
“Tell her I need to talk to her about her sister’s mental state.”
“Good-bye… we love you on the inside…”
“I love him on the outside…”
“Don’t get into the car with strangers! You might never come back!”
“That was his sister.”Heh, heh. These are fun.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 15:53Right, so I hadn’t done the science fair since elementary school when you could present information rather than having to do experiments (I won in my school every year, by the way, and I won for my grade in the district every year except 2nd grade) because I didn’t see the point in testing a hypothesis I already knew was true/false–or doing a whole experiment to find out something I could learn on the Internet in mere seconds. Then I found out about people who do original research, go on to state and even national competitions, and it sounds… amazing. I’d like to do something like that, but I have no idea about how to go about starting a huge project like that. I have a few ideas for subjects:
1. It seems to me that some commonly used tests of self-awareness in animals (the ones with mirrors) are flawed because they only test whether animals recognize themselves visually. That doesn’t seem like a good idea because some animals don’t even recognize each other visually; they can have other methods. I think tests of whether they recognize themselves should be based on those methods. Unless, of course, the mirror tests have only been conducted on animals that recognize each other by sight, and another method is indeed used for the rest that we just don’t hear about, in which case the whole idea won’t work. Obviously, I’ll have to do quite a bit of research.
2. My mother suggested that maybe the judges would prefer projects that solved real-world problems, and I really would love to something environmental. The trouble is, I’ve no ideas so far in that department.
3. I’m interested in the possibility of a link between autism and the unconscious, but I know so little about neuroscience that my doing original research in that area any time soon is… very unrealistic.
Also, what if I need access to equipment or something that I don’t have and can’t afford to buy? Do you think I might be able to find someone who would lend or rent equipment or resources to me? How do I stop being overwhelmed, even though I have more than 4 years before I’m too old for this and therefore it doesn’t matter if I take ages? How do I start something like this? What do those people do who get really far?
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Dodecahedron
in May 13th, 2012 @ 20:59I did science fairs throughout elementary middle school and until eleventh grade when I ran out of time. My projects were, especially in later years, more along the lines of “let’s build something cool and then maybe talk about potential applications, but mostly look at this cool thing that I made.” I never made it past the county level because I didn’t have enough scientific method, but I won some awards there. So:
-I got the impression that most of the people who do huge impressive original research projects either know someone who works in a lab related to what they’re doing or have a college campus with the lab equipment they need nearby. So your chances might be better if you live near a college or a large corporation.
-In your preliminary internet research, you’ll most likely find a few prominent researchers in the field that you’re interested in. People doing research get really specialized. If you’re lucky you can find someone near you who does something you’re interested in. If you’re near a research university, I’d recommend going on their website and looking around at the page for the department you’re interested in. There should be email addresses and lists of papers completed for each professor, and from that you can get an idea of whether you’d like to work on the same things as them.
-If you find a professor who does something you find really interesting, email them! If they do research on something it’s because they’re passionate about it. Even if they aren’t near you geographically, send them a message. The worst that can happen is that you’ll be ignored, and maybe they’ll have some ideas for how you can find out more about the subject locally or even be willing to correspond with you about it.
-You should work on something because you find it interesting, not because you think the judges will like it. Doing original research in high school is impressive, and even if you don’t think it’s practical there could be someone who finds it vital.
-Remember: Big things are accomplished in many small steps.
Good luck!
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:11I know you’re going to a new school next year, so science teachers from that school would be perfect people to talk about your interest in working on this kind of project. If they don’t have any ideas right away, you can try e-mailing professors at local colleges to see if they would be willing to mentor you on a research project. That would work best if you had a specific idea and targeted professors who are interested in similar topics. At your age, I think it’s best just to start something, anything. Even if your first project(s) doesn’t/don’t work out brilliantly, you’ll learn far more from doing than by imagining.
For idea #2, my brother and I both competed in the eCyberMission competition, which falls under the “science projects that solved real-world problems” category, through our school, both doing projects with environmental topics. Over our two years, topics (ones we actually did, ones we talked about, and ones other groups from our schools worked on) included: CFL lightbulbs, blue jean insulation, styrofoam trays, invasive species, paperless classrooms, phosphorus algae blooms, water conversation, organic foods, fish ladders, cost-effectiveness of wind power, and computer recycling. For more topic ideas, you can look at the past winners of eCyberMission and other similar competitions (Christopher Columbus is one some people from my school entered) and see if anything inspires you. The self-awareness in animals idea sounds really awesome.
Another lesson from my experience, though I don’t know how well it applies to the big competitions like Intel Talent Science Search, is that you don’t need super specialized technology to do something interesting and relevant. The year my group went to eCyberMission nationals, 7th grade, our two experiments essentially involved a fish tank, some Eurasian water milfoil we collected from a lake, the rudder of a boat, and a shower. This will obviously vary based on what field you’re interested in, but a lot is possible without PCR machines and gene libraries.
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Vendaval
in May 13th, 2012 @ 23:41Welcome to the world of competitive science! While I’ve entered a few competitions, the highest place I’ve ever won has been Honorable Mention, so I’m not the best person to ask about high level stuff. I was in a program that won some awards though, friends’ papers got published, etc., so I think any questions you do have MuseBlog can answer.
As Dodec and Meow have mentioned, you’re going to need to find a mentor. It’s possible to do research without one, but it’s not recommended. Are there any research institutions around you? Colleges, universities, research parks, national labs, and large corporations often have researchers who are happy to help, sometimes they’re even a part of outreach programs specifically designed to match students up with mentors.
The two big competitions are the Siemens Competition and the Intel Science Talent Search, often shortened to Siemens and Intel, respectively. There are also competitions on the local and state level, as well as for specific disciplines within the sciences. There are also engineering competitions, which I’m not as familiar with. They’re not as respected as the pure science ones, but whatever. It sounds like Meow’s entered one, she’s the one to ask.
1. Intelligent animal research is hard to get into, unless you have an in at a zoo.
2. Judges like projects that follow an idea thoroughly. Good scientific design and strict adherence to the scientific method are rewarded.
3. I know kids who have spent 3 months on a very specific topic and been able to talk with/work with/give presentations to top scientists in that very specific field. If you’re driven and interested, learning the information isn’t an issue, finding a scientist is. Research with animals is harder to do than research without, research with people even more so.Don’t think about your future project as solving a problem or making a discovery, but as answering a very specific question like “Does this stream near my house contain above average levelsof heavy metals?” The answer you finally arrive at will either be yes, no, or maybe. Here’s a sample paper title: “The effectiveness of hypo and hypersaline treatments of the American oyster, Crassostrea virginica, to control biofouling by the polychaete worm Sabellaria vulgaris and treatment effects on oyster growth in the [redacted], New York.” The paper was about dipping oysters in very salty/fresh water to kill parasites. As you can see, the simplest of problems get very complex. Choose a simple problem to research, or a small part of a complex problem.
When you find a mentor at an institution, chances are that you can use that institution’s tools and equipment. You might have to do a project that’s more your mentor’s than your own, be prepared for that.
Break down your project into steps, then create a timeline to carry it out on.
People who do well are fastidious and dedicated, and have great support, most often in the form of mentors.
You can do very well.I like lists! Write out a list of things you’d like to research, a list of mentor sources (institutions), and a list of competitions to enter (deadlines). Like Dodec suggested, you should email local researchers and ask them if they’d mentor you. Most probably won’t respond, but if they research something like tardigrades and they’re looking for help on a project, you’ll be a godsend.
Keep asking questions, I can elaborate on a lot of this.
Good luck!
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:30Okay, so you know how CD stores are quickly disappearing as the rise of Amazon and iTunes continues? Today I went to one of these elusive places and WHY DO I NOT LIVE NEAR A CD STORE. I found some cool CDs, A Fine Frenzy and MIKA mostly. I think I could spend years inside that store.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 18:38I have graduated!
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Purple Panda
in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:28Congratulations!! So very exciting!
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:50Congratulations! That’s wonderful.
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:31I now live in Washington, D.C. (well, just outside)! And tomorrow I start my internship at the EPA. Eep!
Also: I saw The Avengers this morning. So good.
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KaiYves
in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:56Congrats!
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FantasyFan?!?!
in May 13th, 2012 @ 22:45Good luck with your internship! Tell me about it; I’ve thought about interning at the EPA too.
Also, you are now contractually obliged to have a Kokon with Robert.
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Purple Panda
in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:25Thanks! I’ll definitely let you know all about it — I’ve only had one day so far, so I don’t have too much to share, but I’m sure I’ll have tons soon! It seems like it’s going to be really great.
Also: Yeah, Robert! Is it just me or did you comment this morning about Fiddler and Shakespeare or something? Maybe it was my early morning brainfog. But still, I’d like to see you and Fiddler and anyone else! I’ll be here until mid-July.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 14th, 2012 @ 17:49Pan: I did post a comment that mentioned Shakespeare. Somehow after you read it, it wound up in the spam filter. It’s back now.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 14th, 2012 @ 05:21Welcome back to the nation’s capital, Purple Panda! Maybe we can coax Midnight Fiddler into town sometime. Shakespeare usually seems to reel her in.
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Midnight Fiddler
in May 14th, 2012 @ 23:34LET’S HAVE ADVENTURES, OKAY?
I can be reeled into DC fairly easily even without the promise of Shakespeare.
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KaiYves
in May 15th, 2012 @ 08:28Will you be going to ISDC? Please say yes.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 11:21I hadn’t been, but I might be able to get into town around that time if I could steal you for a little bit?
I’ll be in town on the 24th to go to a play (yes, Shakespeare), and maybe I could go down early, kokon with you, then meet my parents before the play….hm…to the kokonventions thread!
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 17:23ALL THE ADVENTURES! All the time!
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in May 13th, 2012 @ 21:53AVENGERS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
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agrrrfishi
in May 14th, 2012 @ 06:51TONY STARK AHHHHHHHHHHHH *flail*
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 09:50Loookiiiiiii.
To quote my friend:
“Loki was a beautiful movie. I mean–Avengers. Avengers was a beautiful movie. …Yes.”
SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT HIM.
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Agent Lightning
in May 14th, 2012 @ 15:54JOSH WHEDON AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 15:56TYPOS AAAAAAHHH
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 06:09i usually don’t post “posts” i usually write the comments for the posts, like, in reply to them. if there was a rank for musebloggers, i would be the neophyte-know rank, or level 1. (where your just under the good-going-keep-it-up rankers (level 2)) so the task i need to do is strike up a conversation about anything with anyone and my neophyte-know rank will become my good-going-keep-it-up rank!
i am sorry if i am boring you with my talk. i should know better
well i guess that’s what neophyte-know rankers do i guess. they make a LOT of mistakes *chuckle* well i guess that’s why im here. to amuse you guys with my jokes. like skelator convinced orco that his frends just wanted him around to make them happy to have a pet. that’s the way it is with tricksters. they talk on and on about people not being your friends and i’m like “i would never do that!” y’know? i know and i would never do that! i wouldn’t want to anyway
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 06:42It kind of freaks me out how little time I have left. To do ANYTHING.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 08:57Are you talking about the next few days or weeks, or the next 60 to 80 years?
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 11:13Well, the next few weeks, but the fact that 60 years is actually a short amount of time is an even scarier thought.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 13:53It’s amazing how quickly it goes. And it really is possible to waste it.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 13:46Got some good hiking done this morning in the Loess Hills–only about four miles, but it was a lot more difficult than my usual spot. I ate lunch at a picnic table overgrown with wildflowers, and apart from an employee driving some logs around, I didn’t see anyone else the whole time. The drive there was wonderful as well–I got a fairly early start, grabbed some coffee, and then took some old two-lane highways instead of the interstate. Lately I’ve been thinking there’s an MBer I’d probably ask out if she lived around here (don’t bother guessing, it’s not a big deal and I have no reason to tell), and her presence is probably the only thing that could’ve made the morning better. Well, okay, crunchy peanut butter would’ve been better than creamy, so there’s that as well. I brought along my new camera and took some pictures of my trekking, though I’m pretty sure none of them turned out well. The light was never in a good spot. Alas.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 21:15I just saw The Avengers. Anyone else slightly thrown by the frequency of the word “tesseract”?
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 22:08Not really. I think we’ve always sort of known you were an unknowing part of an alien plot to conquer the Earth by opening portals to another universe. I mean, it just made sense.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 23:06It isn’t my fault! I didn’t mean to wreak that much havoc.
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KaiYves
in May 15th, 2012 @ 08:27Do the three Ms. Ws know about this?
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 23:04No, but now when I see The Avengers I will think of you every time I hear it. (As if I wouldn’t have already.)
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 08:08I’m actually sad they didn’t use the much more descriptive “Cosmic Cube”. I didn’t know what they were talking about for the first half hour of the movie.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 14:23I thought of you.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 21:20Hey guys! It’s time for my monthly post about how I should come on here more often!
Seriously. I should.
I meant to post something like this at the beginning of the month but then I forgot or something.Anyway, life’s going pretty good.
I don’t think I have any special news.
Hi anyway.
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in May 14th, 2012 @ 21:26Oh wow, my thought processes aren’t working today. I have news after all.
I got a bike as a belated Christmas present yesterday! It’s white and shiny and so very pretty. Also useful. And a delight to ride and all. Yup. I’m excited.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 07:44All my non-Cornell friends are all excited about how they only have ONE MOAR FINAL or how they’re FINALLY DONE YAY… and I have a mid-term on Thursday. It makes for an interesting contrast.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:47I share your pain. I have a midterm next Monday.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 08:33Wooo! Successful Soyuz launch, although inconvenient Central Asian time zones meant it was at 11:01 PM here.
“A mummy with a magic light saber attacked me!”
Ah, Tutenstein. I’d forgotten how good that show was.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 10:44I vote for an Avengers feelings thread. Or we can just overtake the random thread, that’s cool too.
Loki looked a lot like my calc professor last semester. And Robert Downey Jr. looks just like my 10th grade world history teacher. So to me, The Avengers was a movie about the epic battle between mathematics and world history.
I saw it with boyfriend, but I think Mom would really like it — she enjoys any movie which destroys large parts of New York City.in other news:
I am home from collegeI am looking at cars to buy for use next year at school — I like a Subaru Impreza hatchback with 76K miles on it, but I’ve never driven it, so we’ll see if it handles well. The other main option is a Pontiac Vibe with 45K miles, which doesn’t have all wheel drive but is the same model car as the ones both my parents have, and thus the car I learned to drive on. Also it’s blue, and a thousand dollars less than the Impreza. I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT CARS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU
The school budget vote is today. It’s the first vote since I turned 18 that I can participate in. I heart schools and they always cut the music program first (although they’ll probably /also/ cut the smaller varsity teams, like fencing, if this budget fails, and I had some good years there), so hopefully my yes makes a difference.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 11:24Voting feels great! You’ll enjoy it.
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LBK is on a library computer! Shh!
in May 15th, 2012 @ 13:00My friend Sofia thinks you are all 50 year old gross men…
In other news, we are watching Le Mis in Advisory class. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Catwoman
in May 15th, 2012 @ 14:17then tell your friend that i said i was a ten year old girl who thinks that she has a vivid imagination. if she doesn’t believe i said that, show her this post. if you have to here is something to show her. “WE ARE NOT 50 YEAR OLD GROSS MEN WHO DRINK BEER AND GO HUNTING!”
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Agent Lightning
in May 15th, 2012 @ 15:07I’m sure that not all gross fifty-year-old men drink beer and go hunting, but I think we can agree that unless the whole blog is pedophiles, we’re not all fifty-year-old men.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:11And likewise, not all people who drink beer and go hunting are men, fifty, or gross.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 17:32And, for that matter, drinking beer and going hunting are not mutually inclusive activities.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 16:32And for that matter, not all 50-year-old men are gross or participate in either of those activities.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 16th, 2012 @ 01:41Please, we’re not all stalkers. I’m peering through your window with binoculars right now, and you don’t look like a stalker. Nice shirt, by the way.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 08:24Shirt? What do you mean? I’m a fat, shirtless guy in his basement.
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Castle
in May 16th, 2012 @ 18:14Basement? Pah, I’m a fat, shirtless guy in his mother’s dungeon.
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Choklit Orange
in May 17th, 2012 @ 01:40And I’m his mother.
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in May 18th, 2012 @ 15:20CAAASTLLLE
ARE YOU TALKING TO YOUR LITTLE BLOGFRIENDS AGAIN
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 15th, 2012 @ 19:16…but I am.
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Choklit Orange
in May 15th, 2012 @ 21:33It’s true. But for a gross fifty-year-old hunting beer-drinker, Sel is pretty appealing.
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Selenium the Quafflebird
in May 15th, 2012 @ 22:35Please, I’m FABULOUS.
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Choklit Orange
in May 15th, 2012 @ 23:32Okay, fine, you are. In every way. Guys, you should meet Sel. She’s like this floating ball of awesome.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 23:39Sel, I really must meet you someday. Although, I may have to hide from my parents the fact that you’re a gross fifty-year-old hunting beer-drinker.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 08:00Oh, I wouldn’t worry too much. I’ve learnt to disguise myself fairly well over the years.
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Castle
in May 16th, 2012 @ 08:46Just stick a root beer label on the beer bottle and put the rifle in a instrument case. Also, take off the Scumbag Steve hat.
Congratulation! You now look like Super Convincing Non-Hunt-Stalk American Not-Pedophile.
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Agent Lightning
in May 16th, 2012 @ 14:49WHAT WHAT NO
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS IS A TROMBONE
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 16:31Don’t be silly. Trombones are dangerous enough to qualify as rifles.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 17:59Indeed.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 19:46Anyone else remember The Guy Your Parents Warned You About? I feel like he’d have a funny comment here.
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LittleBasementKitten
in May 16th, 2012 @ 05:30This entire conversation is going in my Museblog Wonders Word document for the lulz.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 15:47I want to start a local pet-sitting business, so I’m doing some research. The trouble is, I’m having difficulty finding anything more concrete than descriptions of the job. I know what pet sitters do, what I need to know is the actual process to set it up. Any advice?
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:35Woohoo, I’m officially a voter! The nonpartisan ballot only had three little local things, but that doesn’t matter. I feel like I should save my “I Voted Today” sticker to remember the occasion.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 17:47I voted today, too, on items to be funded by our school district. It feels great!
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:40Back from college and graduated and about to drown in boxes. Slowly sorting through them, though it gets somewhat boring occasionally. Trying to find things to do this summer. I’m working for the month of July, so some of my summer is taken up. We’ll see.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 16:49My AOL floppy disk came in the mail yesterday! It is fantabulous!
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 18:11Don’t know exactly what to do (that is more exciting than unpack, that is) but I now declare this time to be poem writing and submitting time!
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 18:11Alto saxophones are tiny. I wish I could take my Bari home.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 18:20I marched down to the field with my friend’s tenor once freshman year just for fun. I stopped complaining about carrying the alto after that.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 07:31Yea. I’m marching Bari this year instead of Alto, and the first 9-5 was a rather rude awakening.
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Agent Lightning
in May 16th, 2012 @ 14:48I’m going to march baritone (that’s what all the trombonists have to do), but yeah, I never liked marching sax at all. Sure, you get a neck strap, but (at least on alto; I’ve never marched tenor) it’s so hard to get the mouthpiece to reach your face properly!
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 10:55I marched baritone for two years in high school! It was hard to get used to at first, but it gave me the opportunity to be section leader my senior year. Baritone is a little heavier than trombone, but all you really need to do is practice holding up the baritone for as long as you can in between surfing the internet or doing what it is you do. The fingerings/positions isn’t really difficult, although I still think of them as first through seventh and sometimes that confuses people around me.
tl;dr Baritone is difficult but rewarding. Have fun!
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 16:41Yeah, I’ve been trying to learn baritone (Okay, after All-County auditions I’ll learn baritone. After winter concerts. After the Christmas parade. After All-District auditions. All-District Jazz auditions. All-State auditions. Fake MPA. Spring concerts. This upcoming gig. That upcoming gig. That other upcoming gig. Spring concerts.) and I am finding that thinking of the fingerings as first through seventh positions is really helping.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 18:56Agreed.
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 19:03There’s this raccoon that’s sitting right next to our driving… Been sitting there ever since I got home from school today. At first I thought it might be rabid, because it didn’t look injured on first glance.
But if you look closer, there are flies all around its hind. It’s still alive, it looks up when we drive past it, it licks its paw every once in a while. It tried to paw away the flies once when I was looking, to no avail.
I just hate seeing it in obvious pain… I wish I could do something, because it’s going to starve to death or freeze in the night if it just stays there.
*Sigh*
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 19:53Call animal control / a wildlife shelter?
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in May 15th, 2012 @ 21:47The best part of having a local store that you buy tea from (as opposed to an online supplier) is that they personally let you know when their shipment of Shincha Houryoku arrives. I hope I have some time tomorrow to drop by and pick up a couple ounces. I’ve been waiting for months.
Tomorrow I’m serving Mass early in the morning, and then taking my sister out for coffee for her birthday, and then we’re moving my grandpa to hospice, and then I’m serving a rogation procession and Mass. The minor rogation days are the three days before the feast of the Ascension–so, Monday through Wednesday of this week–and each involves a procession through local farmland and then Mass at the same rural location to ask God for a good harvest, protection from storms and disasters, that sort of thing. In tomorrow’s case, it also involves a potluck dinner, which is slightly less meaningful. I’ve never served one a rogation Mass, so I’m looking forward to it. The weather looks like it’ll be great, and it’s been dry for the past week so it shouldn’t be muddy.
So I hope I’ll have time to drop by the tea shop. I’m not sure how fast they’ll sell out, and I don’t want to take any chances.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 10:32Bought three ounces of it this morning and when I got home I realized I bought sencha shinryoku, not shincha houryoku. It’ll still be good, but… *facepalm*
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 00:59In which I study maps of rocks and then spend way too much time looking up pictures of Loki on the internet
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 12:21rocks rocks rocks plants plants plants study forever
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 12:22Good luck!
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 16:30Castle! You, with the Neil Degrasse Tyson avatar! Over here! I need your help! (Help me, Obi-Wan Castle! You’re my only hope!)
You said previously that you knew how to do Minecraft texture pack stuff.
Two questions for you:
-Is it possible to change biome coloration without actual modding? (i.e. programming)
-Is there something online with all the item pictures, or do you have to open the .jar to get it?
Thanks!
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Castle
in May 16th, 2012 @ 19:50Um um um yes. I can help you.
1 – biome coloration:
Yes and no. You have to download a program called MCPatcher to use 32x or higher texture packs, and it also applies to biome coloring and lava/water textures, I believe. MCPatcher is considered a mod, but it’s auto-running. For your information, regular mods don’t involve programming unless you make them yourself. If you download a mod, all you have to do is put the files where the modder tells you to put the files.
2 – online copies:
Both. You can get copies online that are already sized for you (16x, 32x, 64x, 128x, 256x, 512x) or you can extract them from the .jar yourself. I’d recommend going to minecraftforums and looking for texture pack stuff there. My texture pack there is called Skycraft, it’s unfinished. You can probably find it by typing the name. I got my files online AND from the .jar.
I’d also recommend using Photoshop, as it’s easiest for anything over 16x. Anything 16x or under (yes, there are 8x texture packs, they’re very cool) you can use the GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Project, hence the “the”) or paint.net.
DO NOT
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
USE MICROSOFT PAINT.
You WILL want to murder your computer. Paint.net and the GIMP are completely free, and Photoshop has free trials. Photoshop CS6 is currently in beta, and you can download that. It’s the full version of Photoshop, completely free, or at least until they shut down the beta. Good luck!
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 20:12MS Paint is not an image editor. It is a being from the underworld sent to turn well meaning graphics newbies into mindless soulless zombies.
I use GIMP and Photoshop (but when I had to wipe my computer, I lost that version of GIMP and I haven’t redownloaded it yet.)
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Castle
in May 16th, 2012 @ 20:54Have you tried to use it to make a gradient? It’s laughably bad.
But yeah. Hope I helped a little.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 18:29My philosophy professor made fun of Twilight today. It was beautiful.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 18:42I just saw the Hunger Games movie. It was better than I expected. Not anywhere near as good as the book, of course, but pretty good for a movie based on a book.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 18:54I just rediscovered my MuseBlog signitures mousepad. It’s been a pretty caking long time since I’ve been on here regularly.
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Agent Lightning
in May 16th, 2012 @ 19:47We should have another MuseBlog signatures. Those seemed fun.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 19:53Lost REALLY needs to stop tossing Desmond into the jungle and having him wake up naked. I’m going to have naked Desmonds running around in my dreams screaming “4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42!”.
TOO MUCH DESMOND, BROTHA
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 20:14I have no idea if this is the right plae to put this, but, considering that this is the random thread….
Rainbow and I were texting earlier this afternoon, and the subject of the impending Good Omens BBC miniseries (!!!) was introduced. We talked about casting and then we started talking about a Good Omens musical. This is the transcript.
Rainbow- I saw a fan-casting thing with NPH as Aziraphale. Ehh. Maybe?
Zinc- His features are too narrow for Aziraphale for me. I adore NPH, but 1. his face and 2. he’s American, and Aziraphale is ridiculously British.
R- And he’d probably try to turn it into a musical.
Z- Oh my goodness I am imaginging that and I am cryiNG HELP
R- A Queen musical. I’m thinking apocalyptic battles set to Bohemian Rhapsody, and a We Are The Champions finale.
Z- And Aziraphale has old stuffy British marches as his battle theme.
R- The Four Horsepersons could have a Villian Song. Aziraphale and Crowley get a Counterpoint Duet at the beginning.
Z- Adam gets a lighthearted song with add ons from the rest of Them and it has an ominous ending…
R- … You know, they can do whatever they want with the miniseries, we need to get this idea to a director.
Z- All the A/C duets. All of them.Anathema has either a gloomy melody with happy lyrics or gloomy lyrics with a happy melody.
R- The Bikers’ Villain Song can have the four of them lit up on different parts of the stage, singing their verses, and then they all come together.
Z- Newt has a plodding little song that attempts to sound happy but isn’t and it ends with Shadwell storming onstage in the middle of a line.
R- But later there’s an ensemble number with Newt/Anathema, Crowley, Aziraphale, and the Them racing to stop the apocalypse.
Z- And it has overlapping lines and melody like the reprise of Tonight in West Side Story and aghhhhhhhh WANTCrowley and Aziraphale eventually have a very quick back-and-forth dialogue song that’s very clever, like the beginning of What is This Feeling (Wicked). And then the argument devolves into them going and being buddies again.
R- … I think we just accidentally a hit musical adaptation. The actual miniseries is going to seem boring now. :3
Z- Hehehehe. Perfect.The drunk scene in the beginning of the book will have a lurching string and piano background, as in everytime it seems suitable the riff is played. It’s reminiscent of a person tripping over themselves and giggling. And when Crowley goes to Aziraphale’s house when it’s on fire, the riff plays again, but in a minor key and quicker.
The riff could be changed around again and again and be one of their themes, maybe?
R- “The bird could use a spaceship.” *PIANO RIFF*
There could be a part with A/C singing a duet about how life in Heaven/Hell isn’t that great.
Z- Hastur and Ligur have a Scare Chord that isn’t that scary in the beginning but every time it plays it changes a little, until you get the the maggot scene and it’s HORRIFYING.And then Rainbow had to go. But it was her idea to post it here, and we welcome your input. (In fact, we want it. Please contribute.)
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 20:58I need this in my life now.
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 22:04WANT.
…Also, there’s going to be a Good Omens miniseries?
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 00:52woa!!! TNO? the last time I saw you you were in the Pie War thread! i thought you had left Museblog for EVA! i am glad to have you back!
if you were all along posting on other threads and everyone else knew about you this post would be rather awkword
Cake! i can’t even spell awk-word
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 02:12Awkward is an awkward word. *wise nod*
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 08:52I swear, I will never be able to read “EVA!” as “ever” and not “extra-vehicular activity” on first glance…
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 10:23I arrived on the blog shortly after she’d had a letter published in Muse. I believe she’s had more than one (possibly three?) published. When I got here I saw her and, being the easily impressed 9-year-old that I was, my brain went into Celebrity Mode, thought “HOOOOLY CARPFISH” and was rather amazed with her.
And then she left. And now she’s back. And I’m a little bit less easily impressed. But she’s still impressive.
But she’s also human, not an impressive name from a magazine. I sort of didn’t realize that when I was 9.
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 02:33Yes, there is! I’m really wondering whether theylll do the book’s plot or something else… if the writing’s very good I’m fine with the something else, but I’d prefer the book adaptation. As long as it stays true to canon. Tl;dr, just give me good writing and I’ll be happy.
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 19:52It would be totally awesome if we could write out the entire script on MB like an RRR, except writing songs is hard and writing scripts is harder and not everyone has read Good Omens and blah.
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in May 17th, 2012 @ 08:47Adapted by Terry Jones of Monty Python!
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in May 18th, 2012 @ 01:04(Eric Idle)
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in May 18th, 2012 @ 10:17Hm? My source of information was a statement made by Neil Gaiman in an interview. Have you a different understanding, or are you stating a predilection for the flammy Eric Idle?
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 21:21I took a reading day and spent today reading my various books, with special focus on research for “The Whitford Collection”. (Can we keep the brainstorming on that going? I really enjoy it.)
Ah, I have so many great exploration/geography books…
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in May 16th, 2012 @ 22:20Toonami’s coming back! Ten days from now! Internet activism claims another victory. They haven’t announced their lineup yet, or timeslots. It looks like it’ll be the Saturday night version instead of the weeknight version, which is probably better. The official page shows T.O.M., so I guess he’ll still be the host.
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KaiYves
in May 17th, 2012 @ 08:50That’s great! Bringing the best parts of the past into the present, one small step at a time.
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oxlin
in May 17th, 2012 @ 02:23Mrr. Been writing stories but it is super hard to show and not tell. Somehow it is a lot easier in poetry.
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Purple Panda
in May 18th, 2012 @ 21:16Mmmm, yeah. Very true. Sometimes it helps to take each “tell” sentence and turn it into a whole paragraph of description. That doesn’t always work well for a story, but it can help practice.
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Capricious
in May 17th, 2012 @ 10:25Two weeks left of school… I have so many mixed feelings, I’ll just write them off as apathy.
And everyone goes: “Oh, you’re probably stressed because of all the finals and stuff, right? Yeah, everybody feels like that around this time.”
And that makes me feel awful, because no… no I don’t have any big finals, I don’t have any overwhelming studying to do-nothing even close to that… magnitude, just simple things, simple projects and worksheets and essays to write, nothing out of the ordinary, and I’m stressed because I’m always stressed.
These simple tasks have always always been ridiculously hard for me to do, and my stress only gets recognized when people assume it’s about something “more”… I… I’m probably not making any sense. Oh well.Prom tomorrow… Can’t wait for it to be over, already. At least the themse is cool: Midnight Masquerade. Not that the theme ever is very… evident.
I can’t wait for this all to end, but I’m such a disorganized, easily disoriented person that I’m not even sure what sort of steps I’m supposed to take to…wrap things up. Like what assignments to finish, what to collect, to give back… I’m… Just not sure. And that’s the biggest cause of stress.
I try to write everything down in a planner but I recieve different information from different people…I need, like, a commander. Like a Major Monogram, Robert Edwin House, Charlie sort of person. Someone who can give me all my information in one convinient conversation. But I guess real life doesn’t work like that, huh?
/Complain, complain, complain.
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bookgirl_me
in May 17th, 2012 @ 11:05I know how you feel. I still have the second half of my exams in June and all but my real problem is that my schedule is confusing the heck out of me. For the first time in my life, I only have four classes and only about 11 hours of straight-up class time per week, BUT I’m supposed to be prepping about two hours before and after each lesson and it takes me about two hours to even find the notes I’m supposed to study from, if I even took them in the first place. And then there’s two more papers and planning THE REST OF YOUR LIFE YOUNG LADY because next year I’m officially attending, erm, the University of Life (or UVienna, but that I really don’t want). So I should be researching colleges, or at least something college or gap-year related, and instead I’m watching The Guild and trying to figure out if face-masks can go bad? stale? I hope it’s supposed to smell like that…
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KaiYves
in May 17th, 2012 @ 16:50Today was Map Day. I went through all of my old maps (mostly fold-outs from National Geographic) and spent a lot of time just looking at them. Very fun.
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Piggy
in May 17th, 2012 @ 21:08I love maps. My 2012 wall calendar (which I picked up ridiculously cheap after Christmas) has pictures of antique maps from the 15th through 19th centuries. It’s fantastic. May’s map is the known world of Europe, Asia, and Africa, a German woodblock from 1482 based on the text of Ptolemy’s Geography from the second century. It’s pretty accurate around the Arabian peninsula, but it gets less and less recognizable as you go towards eastern Asia.
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oxlin
in May 17th, 2012 @ 22:54Ooh, that sounds excellent!
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Purple Panda
in May 18th, 2012 @ 21:18MAPS.
So good. Do you have any geologic maps? I think they’re really cool to look at (maybe just because they’re so pretty, but I also like to pretend that I understand what they are showing).
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KaiYves
in May 19th, 2012 @ 09:08I have a Mars one showing altitudes, and a very cool sort-of-3D topographic one of Mount Everest.
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Bibliophile
in May 19th, 2012 @ 10:16Speaking of maps, my history assignment is to draw one with at least 10 landforms. Of course, now, I’m going way beyond what’s required despite rarely doing that and making a really intricate map of The Land Where Everyone Worshiped Tardigrades with all the landforms references to obscure tardigrade body parts that probably no-one even here have heard of like peribuccal lamellae (since the land is shaped like an Echiniscus tardigrade), occasionally with words like ‘sacred’ put in front of them–except that biomes count as landforms, too, so the mossy forests and swamps can also have references to sacrifice in their names…
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oxlin
in May 17th, 2012 @ 22:54Man. I’d forgotten how addicting vlog brothers videos are.
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Rainbow*Storm
in May 17th, 2012 @ 23:51One week until Towel Day! Squee. I’m going to carry my bright pink towel, around my shoulders like in the movie.
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Cello-Playing Mathematician (AKA Kyra)
in May 18th, 2012 @ 05:58Thanks for reminding me! Towel Day is seriously one of the best days of the year. Maybe I’ll meet some people in Chicago who love H2G2 as much as I do!
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Agent Lightning
in May 18th, 2012 @ 14:37ZNZ, is your gravatar Amelia Pond?
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ZNZ
in May 18th, 2012 @ 15:26Indeed it is!
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muselover
in May 18th, 2012 @ 16:32Google Reverse Image Search is impressive; it suggested that the word “pond” might be related to it.
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Bibliophile
in May 18th, 2012 @ 17:16I found out about a brain study being done at a research institution in my area. People within a certain age range (which I belong to) who have been diagnosed autism, Asperger’s, or ADHD (I’ve been diagnosed Asperger’s) can get paid to come in, play a computer game, and have their brains scanned! I’d love to do that. The only thing is, its description sounds as if it’s assumed that all of the subjects will be male. This could be because all 3 conditions are more common in males, because I know that is true, but it could also mean that it’s a study only applying to males, which would mean that, as a girl, I wouldn’t be allowed to do it. I sent an email asking about it last night; I don’t have a response yet; I hope I can do it.
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Choklit Orange
in May 18th, 2012 @ 17:49That sounds pretty cool! I did one at Stanford when I was 8, where they asked you to solve math problems and then scanned your brain. Not quite as fun.
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Agent Lightning
in May 18th, 2012 @ 18:16Whee, I got to play with the high school band a few nights back. And tomorrow our band is going to Williamsburg for competition (an excuse to hang out in amusement parks taking chessboards on rollercoasters.)
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KaiYves
in May 19th, 2012 @ 09:10Have fun!
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KaiYves
in May 19th, 2012 @ 09:14I woke up early to watch the SpaceX launch with my father, but they had to abort just after the engines ignited because the computers detected a problem. I’m not going to get mad that it was delayed until Tuesday, because it’s better like this than if they hadn’t found the problem and the rocket had crashed or exploded. Delays will always happen, and you can’t hate the rain for falling or the wind for blowing.
I am, however, disappointed that this means I won’t get to watch with my family when it does go up.
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